The Latest Breaking News from Mariupol

Vladimir Putin’s forces have launched an “insane” onslaught in the Donbas, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday.

Invasion in ‘most active phase’, says Ukraine; Russian forces take control of three Donetsk regions; 200 bodies found in Mariupol basement

Workers digging through the rubble of an apartment building in Mariupol found 200 bodies in the basement, Ukrainian authorities said Tuesday, as more horrors come to light in the ruined city that has seen some of the worst suffering of the 3-month-old war. The bodies were decomposing and the stench…

Workers found 200 bodies in the basement of a destroyed apartment building in Mariupol, Ukrainian authorities say.

Moscow is attempting to seize the Donbas region of two eastern provinces, Donetsk and Luhansk

Russian forces have completed removing mines in the Azov Sea port of Mariupol, the defence ministry said on Tuesday.

The bodies were decomposing and a stench permeated the neighbourhood

Ukrainian port city came under full Russian control last week

This is the moment Russian combat engineers demine the bombed-out Azovstal plant in Mariupol.

A Ukrainian court sentenced a captured Russian soldier to the maximum penalty of life in prison for killing a civilian, and the Kremlin hinted that it may put on trial some of the fighters who surrendered at Mariupol’s steelworks

Posts on social media claim that Russian forces captured a US admiral, Eric T. Olson, at the Azovstal steel plant in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol. The US Department of Defense confirmed to The FRANCE 24 Observers that Eric T. Olson retired in 2011 as an admiral for the US…