The Latest Breaking News from Mariupol

Biden calls Putin a ‘war criminal’ amid attacks on Kyiv. Plus, 13% of mail ballots rejected in Texas primary

Rescue workers were searching for survivors in the rubble of a theatre in the besieged city of Mariupol on Thursday, after Ukraine said a powerful Russian air strike hit the building where hundreds of people had been sheltering from the war.

"The plane dropped a bomb on a building where hundreds of peaceful Mariupol residents were hiding."

Ukraine hopes to evacuate civilians through nine "humanitarian corridors" on Thursday from cities including the encircled port city of Mariupol, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said.

Russian forces are making ‘minimal progress’ on land sea or air and were continuing to ‘suffer heavy losses’, says Ministry of Defence

Olga Semidyanova, 48, died after being hit in the stomach during a battle in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, with her family saying she helped save others before her death on the front line

President speaks of world war two atrocity by German forces as residential tower block in Kyiv is hit

US President Joe Biden branded Vladimir Putin a "war criminal" Wednesday as the Russian leader's onslaught in Ukraine claimed more civilian lives, and a theater where "hundreds" were sheltering was destroyed by bombing. Biden's rebuke -- his sharpest yet -- came after Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky made a searing appeal…

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