The Latest Breaking News from Mariupol

Russia plans to annex much of eastern Ukraine later this month, a senior US official warned, and the Mariupol steel mill that is the city’s last stronghold of resistance came under renewed assault a day after the first evacuation of civilians from the plant. Michael Carpenter, US ambassador to the…

More than 200 civilians are still holed up with fighters in a huge steel plant in the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, city mayor Vadym Boychenko said on Tuesday.

Governor says rocket strike hit Black Sea port city, causing deaths and injuries

Evacuees from besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol reach Zaporizhzhia; Russia attacks steel works where 200 people remain trapped

LVIV, Ukraine — As battered, sun-starved Ukrainians trickled out from the ruins of the port city of Mariupol, Russian forces Monday pressed new bombing runs in the east and south of the country and U.S. officials warned Moscow will attempt to annex larger chunks of territory it occupies.

Around 100 civilians were successfully evacuated from the steel works during a brief ceasefire before Vladimir Putin’s troops again blocked escape routes out of the ruined city with more shelling

More than 200 civilians are still holed up with fighters in a huge steel plant in the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, the city's Mayor says.

"The citizens who left the city say that hell exists, and it's in Mariupol."

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