The Latest Breaking News from Mariupol

A Russian missile strike has killed eight people and wounded 18 others in Ukraine's Black Sea city of Odesa on Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Read our live blog below to see how the day's events unfolded. All times in Paris time (GMT+2).

Russia and Ukraine are hurtling toward what could be an epic battle for control of the country’s industrial heartland

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk on Friday said "there is a possibility" a humanitarian corridor out of the besieged port city of Mariupol could be opened up on Saturday.

LYSYCHANSK, Ukraine — The mayor of Mariupol pleaded Friday for a “full evacuation” of the shattered southern Ukrainian port city that Russia now claims to control, as Moscow said it struck dozens of military targets in the sprawling eastern battle zone overnight.

Russia begins long-awaited push to seize eastern Ukraine … fight to the death in Mariupol … and the cost of war in Russia

The sprawling Azovstal steelworks has become the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the southern port city of Mariupol. Kateryna Kitrish used to work there.

Vladimir Putin is said to be focused on taking total control of the Donbas region. Ukraine fears Russian troops in Transnistria - believed to number around 1,300 - could open another front in the war

Russia's defense ministry said on Friday that Ukrainian fighters and foreign mercenaries had been "securely blockaded" at the Azovstal steel plant where they have been holding out in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol. President Vladimir Putin had ordered his defense minister on Thursday to block off the vast Azovstal complex…

Russia's defence ministry said on Friday that Ukrainian fighters and foreign mercenaries had been "securely blockaded" at the Azovstal steel plant where they have been holding out in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol.