The Latest Breaking News from Mariupol

Russian forces have kept up their barrage of southern Ukraine, hitting the major Black Sea port of Odesa with cruise missiles and bombarding the steelworks up the coast in Mariupol

Zaporizhzhia (Ukraine) (AFP) - Ukraine's last soldiers in the port city of Mariupol face a brutal final showdown Sunday with besieging Russian forces, who are hoping to deliver a critical win ahead of the country's victory day.

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says over 300 civilians have been evacuated from Azovstal, pledges to rescue remaining fighters.

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine announced Saturday that all women, children and older adults had been evacuated from the Azovstal steel plant, the last sliver of Ukrainian-held territory in the shattered southern port city of Mariupol, as Ukrainian towns and cities remained on edge for a major Russian holiday dedicated to…

Dozens feared dead after Russian bombs hit school in Bilohorivka; Ukraine says it has destroyed another Russian ship

Russia’s bombing of a school in eastern Ukraine has killed two people and left 60 feared dead in the rubble, while civilians have been evacuated from Mariupol.

This girl is one of a group of civilians evacuated from the Azovstal plant in the Ukraine city Mariupol as part of a major rescue mission

The Luhansk Governor says Russian forces have dropped a bomb on a school where about 90 people were sheltering, causing a fire that engulfed the building.

Zaporizhzhia (Ukraine) (AFP) - All vulnerable civilians have been evacuated from the Azovstal steelworks holdout in Mariupol, Ukraine said Saturday, presaging a showdown between Kyiv's last remaining soldiers there and the besieging Russian forces ahead of celebrations marking the Soviet World War II victory.