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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Alessandra Prentice and Natalia Zinets

Russia's "victory" in Mariupol turns city's dreams to rubble

FILE PHOTO: A view shows a theatre building destroyed in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine April 25, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

In the years prior to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the port city of Mariupol was undergoing a makeover.

More than $600 million was spent on new roads, a children's hospital and parks to modernise the mainly Russian-speaking city as part of a campaign to show the benefits of life in West-leaning Ukraine following Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014.

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