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Putin visits Russian-occupied Mariupol after ICC issues arrest warrant

Putin visits Russian-occupied Mariupol after ICC issues arrest warrant

LIDIA KELLY and MARK TREVELYAN A day after being accused of war crimes by the International Criminal Court, President Vladimir Putin made a surprise visit to the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol, the scene of some of the worst devastation of his year-old invasion. State television showed extended footage of Putin being shown around the city on Saturday night, meeting rehoused residents and being briefed on reconstruction efforts by Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin. The port city of Mariupol became known around the world as a byword for death and destruction as much of it was reduced to ruins in the first…
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Ukrainian soldiers hold out in Mariupol, pope laments ‘Easter of War’

Ukrainian soldiers hold out in Mariupol, pope laments ‘Easter of War’

ALESSANDRA PRENTICE and NATALIA ZINETS UKRAINIAN soldiers resisted a Russian ultimatum to lay down arms 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. Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said troops in Mariupol were still fighting despite a Russian demand to surrender by dawn. "The city still has not fallen," he told ABC's "This Week" programme, adding that Ukrainian soldiers continue to control some parts of the city. Russia said on Saturday it had control of urban parts of the city, with…
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Russia strikes Kyiv suburb, presses offensive in Mariupol ruins

Russia strikes Kyiv suburb, presses offensive in Mariupol ruins

PAVEL POLITYUK RUSSIAN air raids and missile strikes hit Ukraine's capital Kyiv and other major cities as Moscow launched more long-range attacks following the sinking of its Black Sea fleet's flagship. In the besieged port of Mariupol, the scene of the war's heaviest fighting and worst humanitarian catastrophe, Russian troops pressed their advances, hoping to make up for their failure to capture Kyiv by seizing their first big prize of the war. "The situation is very difficult" in Mariupol, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told the Ukrainska Pravda news portal. "Our soldiers are blocked, the wounded are blocked. There is a humanitarian…
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Russia says over 1,000 Ukrainian marines surrender in Mariupol

Russia says over 1,000 Ukrainian marines surrender in Mariupol

RUSSIA'S defence ministry said that 1,026 soldiers of Ukraine's 36th Marine Brigade, including 162 officers, had surrendered in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol. Mariupol, which has been encircled by Russian troops for weeks, has seen the fiercest fighting and the most comprehensive destruction since Russia invaded on February 24. Russian television on Wednesday broadcast clips of what it said was the surrender. In the footage, unarmed men in military fatigues were visible walking with their hands up along a grass- and tree-lined path towards masked soldiers cradling assault rifles. In one clip, four marines walked away from a…
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Evacuation of Ukraine’s Mariupol fails again, stranding civilians under siege

Evacuation of Ukraine’s Mariupol fails again, stranding civilians under siege

AN attempt to evacuate residents from the besieged southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol collapsed for a second day, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said, blaming an insufficiently clear agreement between the two sides. "Amid devastating scenes of human suffering in Mariupol, a second attempt today to start evacuating an estimated 200,000 people out of the city came to a halt," the ICRC said in a statement. Days of heavy bombardment have left residents of the coastal city trapped without heat, power and water. The city had about 400,000 inhabitants before Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine on…
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