The Latest Breaking News from Mariupol

Civilians are fleeing Eastern Ukraine ahead of the Battle of the Donbas to escape the fate of those in Mariupol, a besieged city in which it is claimed 21,000 people died

Yesterday evening, a Ukrainian MP said Russia used an 'unknown substance' in the besieged city of Mariupol. She claimed the substance used could be chemical weapons. Here's everything you need to know

There are calls from the US and Britain for an investigation after Ukrainian soldiers of the Azov regiment were reportedly injured by a "poisonous substance" during a Russian attack on the port city of Mariupol. No evidence has yet been gathered. The UK foreign secretary says it would be "a…

Ukraine says it is investigating a claim that a poisonous substance was dropped on the besieged city of Mariupol

He said he had run out of food and ammunition defending the city

KYIV, Ukraine — As Russian forces pressed ahead Tuesday in their drive to seize the strategic southern port of Mariupol and encircle Ukrainian defenders in the country’s east, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the nearly 7-week-old war could be entering a “new stage of terror” for his embattled country, and again…

Aiden Aslin, a 28-year-old from Nottinghamshire, said he had ‘no choice but to surrender to Russian forces’

The latest estimate was that about 21,000 civilian residents of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol had been killed since the start of Russia's invasion, the mayor of the port city said on Tuesday.

The United States is not in position to confirm reports of the use of chemical weapons in Ukraine but was working to determine what actually happened, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday.