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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Samantha Lock (now); Maanvi Singh, Gloria Oladipo, Rachel Hall,Kevin Rawlinson and Helen Livingstone (earlier)

Ukraine’s Black Sea port city of Odesa hit by Russian rocket strike – as it happened

Azovstal steel plant employee Valeria, last name withheld, evacuated from Mariupol, hugs her son Matvey, who had earlier left the city with his relatives, as they meet at a temporary accommodation centre in the village of Bezimenne in the Russian-controlled Donetsk Region.
Around 100 civilians from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine, the last holdout of Ukrainian fighters in the city, have been evacuated. Photograph: Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters

Thank you for following today’s live coverage of the war in Ukraine.

This blog is closed – however our coverage continues here.

Russia is replenishing significant losses of equipment and continuing to focus on establishing complete control over the settlements of Rubizhne and Popasna in the Donetsk region, Ukraine’s military claims.

Ukrainian defenders successfully thwarted 24 Russian attacks, as well as destroying six tanks, five artillery systems and 22 units of combat armoured equipment, according to the latest operational report from Ukraine’s general staff of the armed forces.

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