The Latest Breaking News from Mariupol

West Rushes More Aid as Mariupol Teeters and Fighting Rages

The West moved to pour billions more in aid into Ukraine on Friday, as Russia shifted forces freed up by the imminent fall of the pulverized port city of Mariupol and fighting raged in the country’s industrial heartland in the east. Ukraine said its troops repelled a Russian attack in…

Asharq Al-Awsat · May 20, 2022

Ukrainian fighter's wife hopes prisoner swap pans out with Russia

As Ukrainian fighters left the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol this week and ended their dramatic last stand against Russia's siege, Mariia Zimareva tried in vain to spot her husband amid the flood of news pictures being published.

Reuters · May 20, 2022

Ukrainian medic smuggles harrowing bodycam footage from Mariupol in TAMPON

Yuliia Paievska, 53, recorded footage of her team’s desperate efforts to save both Ukrainian and Russian soldiers in her humanitarian fight - with one Russian solider asking her in apparent confusion why she was offering him treatment

Daily Mirror · May 20, 2022

Russia says almost 2,000 Ukrainian fighters from Azovstal have surrendered so far

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said that almost 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers holed up in Mariupol's Azovstal steelworks have surrendered so far, TASS news agency reported on Friday.

Reuters · May 20, 2022

Live updates | 12 killed in Russian attacks in Severodonetsk

Russian forces have attacked the cities of Lysychansk and Severodonetsk in Ukraine’s eastern region of Luhansk, the region’s governor says

The Independent UK · May 20, 2022

Putin ‘risks heavy losses in rush to redeploy Mariupol troops’

Vladimir Putin looks set to rush his troops from the besieged city of Mariupol into the battle for the Donbas risking more heavy losses, British defence chiefs said on Friday.

Evening Standard · May 20, 2022

Troops who defended Mariupol steel mill registered as POWs

Amid fear of Russian reprisals, hundreds of Ukrainian fighters who surrendered after enduring the merciless assault on Mariupol’s steel factory have been registered as prisoners of war

The Independent UK · May 20, 2022

Moscow says hundreds of Ukrainian troops in custody; US Senate approves $40 billion in new aid

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia said Thursday that more than 1,700 Ukrainian fighters had surrendered at a steel plant in the conquered city of Mariupol, even as Ukraine claimed battlefield gains elsewhere, continued its first war crimes trial against a Russian soldier and prepared to launch a second.

Los Angeles Times · May 19, 2022

What might happen to Ukraine’s Azovstal prisoners of war?

Attention now is turning to how the Mariupol POWs might be treated and what rights they have as prisoners of Russia.

Al Jazeera · May 19, 2022

Hundreds more fighters surrender in Mariupol, Russia says

Measures being taken to evacuate Azovstal ‘heroes’, official claims

The Independent UK · May 19, 2022