A heartbreaking image showing the cost of war has emerged from the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, showing a devastated father weeping over the body of his teenage son.
The dad, who was known only as Serhii, cradled his son Iliya's head as he bent over the stretcher set up at a maternity unit, which was covered by a blood-soaked sheet.
The boy had arrived at the hospital moments earlier in the back of a car, with both legs having been ripped apart by a Russian shell.
The Black Sea city hospital had been turned into a makeshift hospital to treat civilian victims of Russian shelling, as fighting continues in Ukraine amid Russia ’s invasion.
Mariupol, the main port of eastern Ukraine, has been surrounded under heavy bombardment with no water or power.
Officials say they cannot evacuate the wounded.
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The city council compared the situation to the World War 2 siege of Leningrad, referring to Nazi Germany's siege of the then-Soviet city where about 1.5 million people died during two years of blockade.
Earlier today Pro-Russian forces warned they would launch targeted strikes on the city of Mariupol unless Ukrainian forces there surrender.
The news of yet another young casualty in the city comes as the war in Ukraine is entering its second week, with Ukrainian cities surrounded and under bombardment.
It’s been a day of continued attacks on cities including Kyiv and Kharkiv, which have suffered intense damage.
Swathes of central Kharkiv, a city of 1.5 million people, have been blasted into rubble.
Attempts to seize both cities have failed so Kremlin forces have instead resorted to heavy bombing, causing thousands of civilian casualties.
The city of Kherson has been taken by Russian troops but elsewhere the invaders have met with fierce Ukraine resistance.
Hundreds of Russian soldiers and Ukrainian civilians have been killed since President Vladimir Putin sent his troops over the border on February 24, while Russia itself has been plunged into isolation never before experienced by an economy of such size.
According to figures from the United Nations, more than 1 million refugees had fled the country in just seven days.
Today has brought with it the announcement that Ukraine would call for Ukrainian corridors for its besieged citizens at peace talks with Russia - which began this afternoon.
Negotiations began between the Russian and Ukrainian sides at about 3pm today.
Ukrainian negotiator Davyd Arakhamia posted a picture on Facebook of himself preparing to board a helicopter for talks. He did not say where.
"The minimum programme: humanitarian corridors," he said.
Neither side has suggested it was expecting breakthroughs after a first round of talks held in Belarus on Monday led to no progress.
Despite an initial battle plan that Western countries said was aimed at swiftly toppling the Kyiv government it describes as dangerous nationalists who threaten its security, Russia has captured only one Ukrainian city so far - the southern Dnipro River port of Kherson, which its tanks entered on Wednesday.
