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BERDYANSK, Ukraine: A Russian military plane was flying in the skies over Berdyansk, a city in southern Ukraine, but no one took much notice.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy says 156 people managed to escape Mariupol while Red Cross says many are still trapped at steelworks

KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces renewed bombings in the brutalized city of Mariupol on Tuesday and pressed their assault on Ukraine’s eastern heartland, according to Ukrainian officials who described a wake of more death and destruction.

Russia unleashed rockets on Tuesday on an encircled steel works in Mariupol, Ukraine's last redoubt in the port city, after a ceasefire broke down with some civilians still trapped beneath the sprawling site despite a UN-brokered evacuation. However, scores of exhausted-looking evacuees who managed to leave under UN and Red…

Dozens of evacuees from Mariupol arrive in Zaporizhzhia as Russia resumes attacks on the besieged Azovstal steel plant.

Ukraine's ministry of defence has predicted when the Russian invasion will conclude based on leaked information from inside the invading military itself, as Moscow prepares to formally annex captured territories

Ukrainian intelligence sources have intercepted a phone call between Russian Senior Sergeant Oleg Dodzhiev and another serviceman stationed in Moscow - which detailed how comrades bludgeoned children and the elderly to death with rifle butts, and executed entire families

Ukraine is calling for all of the 200 or so civilians to be rescued from the steel plant