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The Latest Breaking News from Mariupol

Why is Mariupol so important to Russian forces?

For Moscow, capturing this industrial port city has practical and symbolic significance

The Guardian - AU

Ukraine's leader says 'nothing left' of Mariupol, Kherson also facing humanitarian disaster

Ukraine's president said on Tuesday there was "nothing left" of the city of Mariupol after weeks of Russian bombardment, and Kyiv appealed to Moscow to allow the evacuation of at least 100,000 people who want to leave.

Reuters

Russian forces ‘largely stalled’ in Ukraine, says Britain

Ukrainian forces are ‘repulsing’ Vladimir Putin’s attempts to seize the city of Mariupol

Evening Standard

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Biden Says Russia Is Considering Using Chemical, Biological Weapons in Ukraine

Ukraine's military warned the public on Tuesday of more indiscriminate Russian shelling of critical infrastructure as US President Joe Biden issued one of his strongest warnings yet that Russia is considering using chemical weapons. Russian troops have failed to capture any major Ukrainian city more than four weeks into their…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russian strikes turning Mariupol into 'ashes' as West plans more sanctions

Intense Russian air strikes are turning besieged Mariupol into the "ashes of a dead land", the city council said on Tuesday, as the United States and Europe planned more sanctions to punish Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine.

Reuters

Ukraine morning briefing: Biden warns Putin could use chemical or biological weapons

US President Joe Biden said Vladimir Putin's 'back is against the wall' and also warns businesses to prepare for cyber attacks

Wales Online

Ukraine ready to ‘compromise’ on Nato for Russian ceasefire

President Zelensky also repeats his call for direct talks with Vladimir Putin

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Here are some of the reasons why Russia is so determined to claim the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol

The Ukrainian city of Mariupol has been decimated, with the true extent of the damage still unclear due to the volatile situation on the ground. Here's what we know about why Russia is so focused on it.

ABC News

Civilians fleeing Mariupol describe street-to-street battles

Civilians making the dangerous escape from Ukraine’s embattled southern port hub of Mariupol describe fleeing through street-to-street gun battles and past unburied corpses as a steady Russian bombardment tries to pound the city into submission

The Independent UK

Live updates: Russia stops talks with Japan over sanctions

Japan denounced Russia over its decision to discontinue peace treaty talks over the disputed Kuril islands and withdraw from joint economic projects

The Independent UK

US condemns Moscow’s refusal to rule out use of nuclear weapons – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Biden says Putin could use chemical, biological weapons in Ukraine

Ukraine's military warned the public on Tuesday of more indiscriminate Russian shelling from bogged-down Russian troops, and U.S. President Joe Biden issued his strongest warning yet that Russia is considering using chemical weapons.

Reuters

Global outrage grows over Putin’s merciless attacks in Ukraine

LVIV, Ukraine — International outrage mounted Monday over medieval scenes of suffering in Mariupol, a strategic southern port city that has defied demands for surrender despite a ferocious Russian siege that Ukrainian officials say has trapped thousands of civilians and left corpses lying in the streets.

Los Angeles Times

VIDEO: Ukrainian Forces Destroy Russian Heavy Weapons Including Tanks In Besieged Mariupol

Heavy fighting has decimated much of the city in which an estimated 300,000 people remain trapped.

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Daily Mirror

Defiant Ukraine insists 'we will never surrender' after dismissing Russian deadline

Ukraine dismissed a 5am deadline to surrender to Russia and insisted it would never give in as an explosion destroyed a shopping mall in Kyiv and besieged Mariupol is 90% destroyed

The Independent UK

Ukrainian cities being ‘wiped off’ map by Russia, says Kyiv

‘Moscow is afraid of our army so they are fighting civilians. This is state terrorism’

Al Jazeera

Ukraine refuses to surrender besieged city of Mariupol

Mariupol continues to be bombarded by Russian forces, who also reportedly attacked Odesa for the first time.

Daily Mirror

Ukrainian doctors 'told to castrate captured Russians because they are cockroaches'

War-zone hospital owner Gennadiy Druzenko told his doctors to castrate captured Russian soldiers, he claims. He is set to be added to the Kremlin's most wanted list

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Manchester Evening News

Ukraine latest as eight die in Russian attack on Kyiv shopping centre

Meanwhile some 10,200 visas have been issued under the Ukraine family scheme in the UK

The Guardian - AU

Morning mail: Ukraine rejects Mariupol ultimatum, fears for 132 people in China plane crash, orangutans ‘slang’ talk

Tuesday: Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy says he will never bow to ultimatums from Russia. Plus: orangutans use slang to ‘show off their coolness’

ABC News

Holocaust survivor Boris Romanchenko is killed in his Kharkiv apartment after it is shot and burns down

A 96-year-old man who had been forced to work underground and on the V-2 rocket by Nazis dies in his home as it is fired upon during a Russian attack, while homes in the Black Sea port city of Odesa are also hit by shelling from the invading forces.

France 24

The longer the war... Does time favour Ukraine or Russia?

Nearly a month in, Ukraine is resisting as invading Russian forces increasingly resort to shelling civilians. With an estimated 300,000 people trapped in the besieged port city of Mariupol and amid shelling in major cities including the capital, Kyiv is refusing to surrender and the Russian advance is slow going.…

The New Daily

Ukraine refuses to surrender Mariupol; Russia blows up Kyiv shops

Told to give up the city of Mariupol by dawn, Ukraine's president says the country will not surrender and its people will not accept Russian occupation.

Al Jazeera

Names on a list: Fleeing Mariupol, one checkpoint at a time

Journalists recount their escape from southeast Ukraine port city, which has been bombarded by Russian forces for weeks.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Besieged Ukrainian Port Defies Russian Order to Drop Weapons

Ukraine defied Moscow's demand for its soldiers to lay down arms before dawn on Monday in besieged Mariupol where hundreds of thousands of civilians are cowering from Russian bombardments laying waste to their city. Russia's military had ordered residents of the southeastern port to surrender by 5 a.m., saying those…

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