The Latest Breaking News from Mariupol

UN confirms ‘safe passage operation’ is under way at the Azovstal steel plant to rescue civilians trapped by fighting.

Around 100 Ukrainian civilians were evacuated from the ruined Azovstal steelworks in the city of Mariupol on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, after the United Nations confirmed a "safe passage operation" was in progress there.

LVIV, Ukraine — Russian forces aimed a punishing artillery barrage Saturday at cities, towns and villages in eastern Ukraine, destroying electrical plants, fuel depots and other key infrastructure.

Vladimir Putin's forces said they had struck a command post and a warehouse that stored rockets and artillery, while Ukraine said the south and east of the country had been bombarded with missiles

Hundreds more are believed to remain trapped with hardly any access to food or water.

Ruthless Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov is a longtime fervent ally of Russian leader Vladimir Putin and has deployed troops to fight in the tyrant's brutal war

LVIV, Ukraine — Russian forces aimed a punishing artillery barrage Saturday at cities, towns and villages in eastern Ukraine, even as Western and Ukrainian military officials and analysts said Moscow’s much-vaunted military offensive in the country’s industrial heartland was being slowed by troop casualties and logistical, supply and morale problems.

Ukraine's military said on Saturday that Russian planes had continued to launch strikes on the besieged city of Mariupol, focusing on the Azovstal steelworks where troops and civilians are sheltering.

President Emmanuel Macron said France would step up military and humanitarian support to Ukraine during a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Saturday, Paris said. Macron reiterated his "strong concern" over Russia's bombing of Ukrainian cities and the "unbearable situation" in the southeastern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol,…