A Ukrainian port city being catastrophically bombed round the clock by Russian forces is in danger of becoming 'like Leningrad', according to officials.
Mariupol, on the Black Sea, is under constant bombardment from Kremlin airstrikes, with vital civilian infrastructure cruelly targeted in an effort to force the southeastern city into submission.
The then-Soviet city of Leningrad, now called St Petersburg, saw a protracted Nazi siege during World War 2, resulting in 1.5million people killed over two years.
