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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.

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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.

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'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.

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Russia claims to have captured Mariupol's port, says 1,000 Ukrainian troops have surrendered

Russia says it has taken control of the port in Mariupol and that more than 1,000 Ukrainian marines have surrendered in the south-eastern Ukrainian city.

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Russia says over 1,000 Ukrainian marines surrender in Mariupol

Russia's defence ministry said on Wednesday that 1,026 soldiers of Ukraine's 36th Marine Brigade, including 162 officers, had surrendered in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol.

Reuters

Abandoned in east Ukraine, cats and dogs look for new homes in Russia

With the trunk of her car filled to the brim with pet carriers, Yulia drives across the conflict-torn Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine to pick up cats and dogs abandoned by owners who fled in the hope of finding them new homes in Russia.

Reuters

Kyiv warns Russia planning large assault in eastern Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia is concentrating tens of thousands of troops for its new assault.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy tells Russian journalists Ukraine willing to adopt neutral status

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tells Russian journalists Ukraine is prepared to discuss adopting a neutral status as part of a peace deal with Russia but it would have to be guaranteed by third parties and put to a referendum.

The Guardian - AU

Zelenskiy promises to work for new sanctions against Russia – as it happened

Volodymyr Zelenskiy says new round of negotiations ahead but that deal would have to be subject to referendum; Joe Biden rejects suggestion he was calling for regime change in Moscow

Al Jazeera

Timeline: A month of Russia’s war in Ukraine

In the month since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, more than 10 million people have been displaced.

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Fragmented picture of devastation emerges from Ukrainian city of Mariupol under continual bombardment by Russian forces

With communications disrupted and movement restricted, details about the horror that is unfolding in Mariupol come as anecdotes, uncertain estimates and unverifiable claims. WARNING: This story contains content which may be distressing for some readers.

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Some residents of Ukraine's Mariupol are fleeing on foot, says governor

Some residents of Ukraine's besieged city of Mariupol have resorted to escaping the blockade on foot as official evacuation efforts have mostly failed due to ongoing shelling by Russian forces, the region's governor said on Friday.

The Guardian - AU

Invaders ‘cannot conquer us’, Zelenskiy says, as 13,000 flee besieged cities – as it happened

Ukraine’s president says the capital will only fall to Russian troops if it is completely destroyed, while Moscow warns western shipments of arms to Ukraine could be attacked

Reuters

Separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine declare full military mobilisation

Russian-backed separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine declared a full military mobilisation on Saturday, a day after ordering women and children to evacuate to southern Russia because of what they said was the threat of conflict.

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