The Latest Breaking News from Mariupol

A celebrated Ukrainian medic whose footage was smuggled out of the besieged city of Mariupol by an Associated Press team was freed by Russian forces

Ukraine holds Sievierodonetsk as battle for Donbas enters critical phase; the Russians rejecting Putin and fighting for Kyiv

Remaining residents now face a "dire" situation, UN Human Rights chief warns.

In a siege similar to the Mariupol steelworks, hundreds of Ukrainian civilians are believed to have taken shelter inside a chemical plant in the Luhansk region.

Around 90,000 Ukrainians remain in the city with little access to electricity, phone, internet, water or healthcare

The news from Ukraine is very grim – to paraphrase Churchill on the fall of France in 1940. The Russians are advancing slowly, steadily, brutally in Donbas. There are hundreds, possibly thousands if civilians are included, of casualties every day. Cholera is reported to be spreading through the uprooted populations…

Russian forces tightened their grip on the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk and cut off the last routes for evacuating citizens, a Ukrainian official said on Monday - a scene that echoed Moscow's assault on Mariupol last month. Amid heavy Russian bombardment, regional governor Sergei Gaidai said on social media…

Moscow’s troops now control about 70% of the key city of Severodonetsk and are trying to cut off around 500 locals sheltering in an industrial complex - just like Mariupol

Ukraine news from June 13: Destruction of bridges makes it impossible to evacuate civilians from city, governor says.

The bodies of scores of Ukrainian fighters killed during the siege of the Azovstal steelworks in the southern city of Mariupol are still awaiting retrieval, the former commander of Ukraine's Azov National Guard regiment said on Sunday.

Refugees tell of being forced to strip or witnessing beatings as they seek to enter Russia