The Latest Breaking News from Mariupol

Ukraine vows to 'fight to the end' in Mariupol as Russian ultimatum expires

Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Sunday that the strategic port city of Mariupol “has not fallen” and that the encircled forces defending the city from Russian attack will “fight to the end". Earlier in the day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had invited French President Emmanuel Macron…

France 24 · Apr 17, 2022

Russia strikes Ukraine's big cities, bears down on Mariupol

Russian forces have renewed missile strikes on Kyiv and intensified shelling of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city

The Independent UK · Apr 17, 2022

Ukrainians defy Russian surrender demand in Mariupol on 'Easter of war'

Ukrainian soldiers resisted a Russian ultimatum to lay down arms on Sunday in the pulverised port of Mariupol, which Moscow said its forces had almost completely seized in what would be its biggest prize of the nearly two-month war.

Reuters · Apr 17, 2022

Russia-Ukraine latest updates: Mariupol fighters hold out

Ukraine news from April 17: Ukrainian fighters are holding out in the last pocket of resistance in Mariupol.

Al Jazeera · Apr 16, 2022

Ukraine peace talks over if Russia kills last defenders of Mariupol, warns Zelensky

Russia claims to have full control of besieged city’s urban areas

The Independent UK · Apr 16, 2022

Family of Brit captured in Ukraine furiously deny Russian claims he's a spy

Aiden Aslin's brother, Nathan Wood, called on the Foreign Office to act after the Kremlin branded Aiden, 27, an enemy agent rather than a prisoner of war

Daily Mirror · Apr 16, 2022

Vladimir Putin loses eighth general in Ukraine as Russia prepares new offensive

Major General Vladimir Frolov, deputy commander of the 8th Combined Arms Army, which was stationed near Mariupol, is the latest Russian general to be killed in Ukraine

Daily Mirror · Apr 16, 2022

Zelensky calls scene in Mariupol "inhuman" as Russian forces bear down on city

He said earlier that negotiations with Russian officials would end if Mariupol fighters were killed.

Axios · Apr 16, 2022

Russia says all urban areas of Mariupol cleared of Ukrainian forces

(makes clear Mariupol is on the Sea of Azov, not the Black Sea)

Reuters · Apr 16, 2022

Second Brit fighter captured in Ukraine and paraded by Russian forces in chilling video

Shaun Pinner, 48, can be seen in a video released by Russia explaining he had been fighting in besieged port city Mariupol before being captured and taken to Donetsk

Daily Mirror · Apr 16, 2022