The Latest Breaking News from Mariupol

Valentyna Zakharchuk is a Ukrainian citizen who will provide daily on-the-ground updates of the Russian invasion for Benzinga. Southeast Ukraine: In Mariupol, the only hospital that still accepts people is on the verge of collapse. Doctors said that disconnecting a medical facility from electricity will be fatal for many patients.

While about 50 Turkish citizens have escaped the besieged city in recent days, about 30 remain.

Efforts to stock up Kyiv, Kharkiv and Dnipro are under way as the wider repercussions of the conflict are felt in Yemen and Lebanon

Families have been told to leave their dead in the streets because it’s too dangerous to hold funerals. This southern seaport of 430,000 has become a symbol of Russia President Vladimir Putin’s drive to crush democratic Ukraine — and also of a fierce resistance on the ground.

The International Committee of the Red Cross called on the warring parties on Thursday to let people leave the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol safely and to allow aid in.

Leader of southeastern unit, major general Oleg Mityaev, said to have been killed in attempt on Mariupol

There were giant signs spelled out in Russian for any pilot to see: “children”. Yet a Mariupol theatre, in which more than 1,000 women and children were sheltering, was bombed anyway. Now it is mere rubble.

An image of a theatre in Mariupol that was later attacked shows the Russian word for ‘children’ written in large white letters on the ground outside.

Number of casualties unclear after strike on building where hundreds of people were hiding in basement