The Latest Breaking News from Mariupol

Residents of Mariupol recounted the horrors of the battle for their now devastated city this week as they sifted through the rubble for belongings, cooked meals by the roadside or just stared at the charred shells of buildings all around them.

Ukraine hopes on Friday to evacuate civilians who are holed up with Ukrainian fighters in the vast Azovstal steel plant in the southern city of Mariupol.

Ukrainian capital rocked by Russian missile strikes while UN secretary general visited

A video believed to be from inside the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol shows people huddling in darkness and covered in rubble after the makeshift hospital was blasted by a Russian bomb

Mayor of the Ukrainian capital, Vitali Klitschko said that the blasts hit a central part of the city, forcing three people to be hospitalised.

Mariupol authorities sound the alarm over unsanitary conditions they say pose a "deadly danger" to the city's remaining residents.

Russia has fired two missiles into the Ukrainian capital Kyiv during a visit by the UN secretary-general, with one hitting the lower floor of a residential building and injuring at least three people, the city's mayor says.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said after talks in Kyiv on Thursday that his organisation was doing all it could to enable the evacuation of a steel plant where fighters and civilians are holed up in the city of Mariupol.

Moscow's offensive in eastern Ukraine gathered momentum as several areas came under heavy shelling Thursday, amid suspicions Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to score a major battlefield success in time for Victory Day, one of Russia's proudest holidays, on May 9. Ukrainian authorities reported intense Russian fire in the Donbas…