The Latest Breaking News from Mariupol

Bulgaria has banned Russian-flagged ships from entering its Black Sea ports as part of expanded EU sanctions, the country’s Maritime Administration announced on its website on Sunday

When asked if he thinks Putin would use nuclear weapons, the only EU leader to have met Russia’s president since the invasion of Ukraine said: ‘I don’t really know’

Russia has told Ukrainian soldiers in southern city to surrender as Ukraine president laments ‘inhuman’ situation there

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said the situation in Mariupol is "inhuman" and called on the West to immediately provide heavy weapons, as Russia claimed it was in control of almost all of the strategic port city and urged its last defenders to surrender. Moscow said Ukrainian forces in the city…

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Armed forces used ‘high-precision’ missiles to ‘destroy’ the site near the town Brovary, the Kremlin said

Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Sunday that the strategic port city of Mariupol “has not fallen” and that the encircled forces defending the city from Russian attack will “fight to the end". Earlier in the day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had invited French President Emmanuel Macron…

Russian forces have renewed missile strikes on Kyiv and intensified shelling of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city

Ukrainian soldiers resisted a Russian ultimatum to lay down arms on Sunday in the pulverised port of Mariupol, which Moscow said its forces had almost completely seized in what would be its biggest prize of the nearly two-month war.

Mariupol forces defy Russian demand for surrender, as European Commission chief urges fast supply of arms to Ukraine

Russia's defence ministry has told the Ukrainian forces still fighting in the besieged southern port of Mariupol to lay down their arms starting 6 a.m. Moscow time (0300 GMT) on Sunday to save their lives.