The Latest Breaking News from Mariupol

President Volodymyr Zelensky brought home from Turkey five former commanders of Ukraine's garrison in Mariupol, a highly symbolic achievement that Russia said violated a prisoner exchange deal engineered last year.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday said the country should not "block" the United States from sending cluster bombs to Ukraine, while defending its opposition to the use of the controversial weapon. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday voiced hope for the "best possible result" from an upcoming NATO summit…

Alina Beskrovna has told how she hid in a basement in Mariupol, Ukraine, and drank "radiator water" as Russian shelling rained down but now her family has escaped and she is taking a Master's at Harvard

Death toll in Kramatorsk rocket attack rises to 12 as rescue operations end; Ukraine claims to be making advances towards Berdiansk and Mariupol

Both sides suffer heavy losses as Ukrainian counteroffensive makes small gains; Ukrainians take reconstruction efforts into own hands as billions in aid pledged at London forum

Clearest progress in counteroffensive has come north of occupied Mariupol, but Kyiv’s troops have paid a high price

Ukrainian mayor says there is no time to waste in drawing up vision for devastated city, which is now under Russian control

Centre of fighting has moved as Ukrainian forces slowly push back Russians, says Hanna Maliar, a deputy defence minister

Deputy defence minister tells Guardian that Ukrainian forces are making progress, with far fewer deaths than Russia