The Latest Breaking News from Mariupol

From Ukraine to Russia: Boy safer, but not closer to US dad

An American father is relieved to learn his 2-year-old son has safely made it out of the besieged Ukrainian coastal city of Mariupol

The Independent UK · Apr 22, 2022

Ukraine news – live: Russia claims one sailor died in sinking of Black Sea warship

Report also claimed 27 were missing

The Independent UK · Apr 22, 2022

Kyiv accuses Moscow of 'imperialism' after Russia flags interest in south Ukraine

Moscow wants to take full control over southern Ukraine, a Russian general said on Friday, a statement Ukraine said gave the lie to Russia's previous assertions that it had no territorial ambitions.

Reuters · Apr 22, 2022

Putin orders troops not to storm last Mariupol stronghold but declares success

SVIATOHIRSK, Ukraine — Russia claimed victory over the battered southern Ukrainian port of Mariupol on Thursday, with President Vladimir Putin saying he had ordered his forces not to attack the city’s last holdouts sheltering in a vast steelworks but to blockade the compound so tightly that “not even a fly…

Los Angeles Times · Apr 21, 2022

New satellite images reveal ‘mass graves’ near Mariupol as Russia ‘attempts to storm’ steel plant

Russian troops buried civilians in mass graves to cover up their own ‘military crimes,’ mayor says

The Independent UK · Apr 21, 2022

U.S. dance champion says she has not heard from Ukraine family since March 2

The last time U.S. ballroom dance champion Antonina Skobina spoke to her mother in Mariupol, Ukraine, the family had no heating or electricity.

Reuters · Apr 21, 2022

U.S. understands Ukrainian forces still holding ground in Mariupol - State Department

The United States understands that Ukrainian forces still hold ground in Mariupol and Russian President Vladimir Putin's claim to have liberated the city is disinformation, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday.

Reuters · Apr 21, 2022

Mariupol now: The shape of things to come in Ukraine?

Russia has claimed control of the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, but President Volodymyr Zelensky says as many as 120,000 civilians remain trapped there, including hundreds in bunkers below the Azovstal steelworks. Is this the shape of things to come in other cities in the Donbas region now targeted by…

France 24 · Apr 21, 2022

Failure to end Ukrainian resistance in Mariupol ‘hampering Russian advance’

Western officials said President Putin may want to score a military success ahead of May 9 Victory Day parade in Moscow.

The Independent UK · Apr 21, 2022

Putin orders army to blockade Mariupol steel plant 'so that not even a fly can escape'

Vladimir Putin ordered his forces to block off the industrial area of Mariupol so that nobody could escape. He claimed his decision was being made to safeguard the lives of Russian soldiers

Daily Mirror · Apr 21, 2022