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Russia says its forces clear most of Mariupol, strike Kyiv suburb

Russia said its troops had cleared the urban area of Mariupol and only a small contingent of Ukrainian fighters remained inside a steelworks in the besieged southern port on Saturday, as missile strikes hit Ukraine's capital Kyiv and other cities.

Reuters · Apr 16, 2022

Ruins of Mariupol could become Russia's first big prize in Ukraine. Here's what's happened there so far

Mariupol, where a maternity hospital and a theatre packed with sheltering families were bombed, is the site of the worst humanitarian catastrophe of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

ABC News · Apr 15, 2022

'Fortress in a city': Ukrainians cling on at steel plant in Mariupol

Explosions rumbled and smoke rose this week from a steel making district in besieged Mariupol where dwindling Ukrainian forces are holed up as Russia tries to take full control of its biggest city yet.

Reuters · Apr 15, 2022

Escape from Mariupol: the man who swam to safety from Russian terror

Exclusive: Witness to bombing of theatre fled by swimming along shoreline to reach Ukrainian-controlled territory

The Guardian - UK · Apr 7, 2022

Ukraine war images show scale of devastation

Press photographers risk their own lives to document the realities of Russia’s vicious shelling campaign, which has reduced its neighbour’s cities to rubble and traumatised their residents

The Independent UK · Apr 4, 2022

Conscripts sent to fight by pro-Russia Donbas get little training, old rifles, poor supplies - sources

Military conscripts in the Russian-backed Donbas region have been sent into front-line combat against Ukrainian troops with no training, little food and water, and inadequate weapons, six people in the separatist province told Reuters.

Reuters · Apr 4, 2022

Ukraine claims control over Kyiv region as Russia looks east

Ukraine said on Saturday its forces had seized back all areas around Kyiv, claiming complete control of the capital region for the first time since Russia launched the invasion.

Reuters · Apr 2, 2022

White House says the US has evidence that the war against Ukraine has been ‘a strategic disaster’ – as it happened

Germany, France and the UK reject Russia’s demand to pay for gas in roubles; Kremlin announces further sanctions for EU leaders

The Guardian - UK · Mar 31, 2022

Eking out an existence and mourning the dead in besieged Mariupol

Amid the burnt-out frames of shelled buildings and bare branches of trees, only a children's playground set, now abandoned, lends colour to this neighbourhood in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol.

Reuters · Mar 31, 2022

One woman's harrowing escape from Mariupol, the besieged city in Ukraine

After weeks under siege, bunkering down in freezing darkness with no food or water, Irina and her son finally escaped a city that now lies in ruins. Passing burning cars on mined roads, she made it to safety. This is her story.

ABC News · Mar 29, 2022