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Mariupol mayor says lives of city's trapped residents are in Putin's hands

Russian President Vladimir Putin alone can decide the fate of the 100,000 civilians still trapped in Ukraine's war-torn Mariupol, Mayor Vadym Boichenko told Reuters on Thursday, saying that satellite images of a mass grave site were proof Russians were burying bodies to try to hide the death toll.

Reuters

Russians 'throw plastic bags filled with bodies' into newly dug mass graves in Mariupol

An adviser to Mariupol's mayor has released horrifying new photos showing newly built mass graves in the besieged city, which Russian troops are reportedly filling up with bodies

Daily Mirror

Russia-Ukraine latest updates: UN chief to meet Putin in Moscow

Ukraine news from April 22: Guterres will meet Russian President Putin on Tuesday to press for fighting to stop.

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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

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

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

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.

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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

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

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

EXPLAINER: Why the battle for Mariupol's steel mill matters

Russian President Vladimir Putin is claiming control over Ukraine’s seaside city of Mariupol even as its defenders are holding out inside a massive steel mill near the water

The Independent UK

Satellite images show mass grave site in Ukrainian town near Mariupol

The village of Manhush has been held by Russian soldiers for several weeks.

Axios

Russia claims captured Britons are being given any assistance they need

Moscow urged the UK to cease the delivery of weapons to Russia.

The Independent UK

Russian forces accused of secret burials of Mariupol civilians in mass graves

Mayor says corpses thrown into mass grave which appears to be visible on newly released satellite images

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Inside Ukraine factory SURROUNDED by Russians as fears thousands may starve to death

The Azovstal Iron and Steel Works in the southern port city of Mariupol is one of the last standing Ukrainian strongholds in the city but is now totally surrounded by Russian forces

Reuters

Ukraine's military says Russia has attempted to storm Mariupol's port and Azovstal plant

Ukraine's military said on Wednesday that Russian forces have made attempts to storm the seaport and Azovstal steel plant in the southeastern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol.

Reuters

Satellite images show mass grave near Mariupol, Maxar says

Satellite imagery from near the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol shows a mass grave site that has expanded in recent weeks to contain more than 200 new graves, a private U.S. company said on Thursday.

Reuters

Explainer-Mariupol, the ruined port city that Russia says it has "liberated"

The port city of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov, reduced to a wasteland littered with bodies by nearly two months of siege and bombardment that Ukraine says killed tens of thousands of civilians, is a big strategic prize for Russia.

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Zenger

Dystopian Scenes In Besieged Port City Including Corpses On Streets

Zenger News obtained the footage from the Azov Regiment earlier today (Wednesday, April 20).

Reuters

Ukraine's Zelenskiy says 120,000 civilians blocked from leaving Mariupol

Around 120,000 civilians are blocked from leaving the besieged city of Mariupol, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday.

Evening Standard

Glamorous Kate and William visit Disasters Emergency Committee in London

They spoke to aid workers out on the ground in conflict zones and those recently returned from Ukraine and neighbouring countries

Zenger

VIDEO: Mad Max: Catastrophic Scenes In Mariupol As Last Remaining Fighters Hold Out

Zenger News obtained the footage from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense (MoD) earlier today (Tuesday, April 19).

The Independent UK

Mariupol timeline: How the Ukrainian seaport became a city under siege

A coastal export hub, home to 400,000 people just two months ago, the city has borne the brunt of Russian brutality as Moscow seeks land bridge between Crimea and Donbas

The Guardian - UK

‘They’ve gone through hell’: fears for British prisoners of war in Ukraine

Exclusive: friend of Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner says UK minister’s claim they were in Ukraine illegally is ‘completely false’

Reuters

Ukraine president's adviser says Russia realised it could not take Mariupol's Azovstal

Russia decided to blockade the besieged Azovstal steel plant in the city of Mariupol because it cannot take it by force, Oleksiy Arestovych, Ukraine's presidential adviser said on Thursday.

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