# mariupol - Wednesday 8 June, 2022
# Severodonetsk
# Severodonetsk
The strategic city has become the focus of Russia’s offensive as it seeks to seize an eastern swathe of Ukraine.
# mariupol - Thursday 19 May, 2022
# Ukraine
The Russian military says that a total of 1,730 Ukrainian fighters who were making a last stand in Mariupol have surrendered. The Red Cross said that registrations of Ukrainian prisoners of war began on Tuesday under an agreement between Russia and Ukraine. US President Joe Biden backed Finland and Sweden's Nato membership bids after meeting the countries' leaders in Washington.
# mariupol - Wednesday 18 May, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
Meanwhile, Ukrainian fighters extracted from the last bastion of resistance in Mariupol have been taken to a former penal colony in enemy-controlled territory.
# mariupol - Tuesday 17 May, 2022
# Mariupol
# Mariupol
Ukraine’s defence ministry confirmed the soldiers had left Azovstal, expressing hope for an “exchange procedure.”
# mariupol - Thursday 12 May, 2022
# NATO
Kyiv is preparing for its first war crimes trial of a captured Russian soldier. Gazprom announced it would stop supplying gas via the Polish part of the Yamal-Europe pipeline. Finland's president and prime minister have said they are in favour of applying for Nato membership.
# mariupol - Tuesday 10 May, 2022
# Ukraine
The Ukrainian military said Russian forces fired seven missiles from the air at Odessa, hitting a shopping centre and a warehouse. Ukrainian officials said around 100 civilians remain trapped at a steel plant in Mariupol despite earlier reports that all had been evacuated. US President Joe Biden signed a new bill to expedite more weapons to the country.
# mariupol - Monday 9 May, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that his country would not allow Russia to appropriate victory in World War II.
# mariupol - Sunday 8 May, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
Russian forces may be seeking to hand President Vladimir Putin a critical win ahead of the country’s victory day tomorrow.
# mariupol - Saturday 7 May, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
Fighting continues on many fronts, and Ukraine’s defence ministry said it had destroyed another Russian vessel in the Black Sea.
# mariupol - Friday 6 May, 2022
# Siege Of Mariupol
# Siege Of Mariupol
Survivors have described for the Associated Press their two months at the centre of hell, and their escape.
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
Ten weeks into the war, Russia has focused its efforts on Ukraine’s east and south.
# mariupol - Thursday 5 May, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
Russia’s defence ministry announced a daytime ceasefire for three days beginning today to evacuate civilians from the plant.
# mariupol - Wednesday 4 May, 2022
# War Crime Probe
# War Crime Probe
The Ukrainian Government estimated early on that around 300 people died and has since opened a war crimes investigation.
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
Local authorities said 21 civilians were killed and another 28 wounded in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region yesterday.
# mariupol - Tuesday 3 May, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
The UK and EU are moving to give more support to Ukraine and further sanction Russia respectively.
# mariupol - Monday 2 May, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
The evacuation of Mariupol was delayed today amid heavy fighting in Ukraine’s east.
# mariupol - Sunday 1 May, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
Earlier efforts at evacuations from the plant, the last site in the city still held by Ukrainian soldiers, had failed.
# mariupol - Friday 29 April, 2022
# Mariupol
# Mariupol
The mill is the last site in the city still held by Ukrainian soldiers who are encircled by Russian troops.
# mariupol - Monday 25 April, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
There have been several Russian attacks against Ukrainian rail and fuel facilities.
# mariupol - Sunday 24 April, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
The trip by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin comes as the war enters its third month.
# mariupol - Friday 22 April, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
Russia says it has “liberated” the city, with just a few thousand Ukrainian soldiers left in the Azovstal plant complex.
# mariupol - Thursday 21 April, 2022
Live
Apr 21st 2022, 7:10 PM
Russia's defence minister said it controls all of Mariupol except the Azovstal plant. The prime ministers of Spain and Denmark have arrived on a visit to Kyiv. Ukraine said nine bodies have been found outside Kyiv, some with signs of torture.
# mariupol - Wednesday 20 April, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
Commander Serhiy Volyna said his marines are “maybe facing our last days, if not hours”.
# mariupol - Tuesday 19 April, 2022
# Battle For The Donbas
# Battle For The Donbas
Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed that his forces will “fight” and “defend ourselves” in a bullish video address.
# mariupol - Monday 18 April, 2022
# Mariupol
# Mariupol
Ukraine has pledged to fight on and defend the port city.
# mariupol - Sunday 17 April, 2022
# Mariupol
# Mariupol
Zelenskyy has warned that peace talks with Moscow will be scrapped if the last Ukrainian troops in Mariupol are killed.
# mariupol - Wednesday 13 April, 2022
# Mariupol
# Mariupol
“It’s become clearer and clearer that Putin is just trying to wipe out the idea of even being able to be a Ukrainian,” Joe Biden said.
# mariupol - Tuesday 12 April, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
Reports emerged yesterday from Ukraine’s Azov battalion that a Russian drone had dropped a “poisonous substance” in the area.
# Mariupol
# Mariupol
There are unconfirmed reports that chemical weapons were used in the city of Mariupol.
# mariupol - Wednesday 23 March, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
Tens of thousands of residents have already fled the besieged southern port city.
# mariupol - Monday 21 March, 2022
# War Reporting
# War Reporting
This is Associated Press video journalist Mstyslav Chernov’s account of the siege of Mariupol, as documented with photographer Evgeniy Maloletka.
# mariupol - Saturday 19 March, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a fresh appeal for talks with Moscow yesterday.
# mariupol - Thursday 17 March, 2022
# Air Strikes
# Air Strikes
It comes as US President Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a war criminal.
# mariupol - Wednesday 16 March, 2022
# Mariupol
# Mariupol
Mariupol’s mayoral office said that the strike was carried out on purpose by Russia.
# mariupol - Tuesday 15 March, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
The International Committee for the Red Cross told The Journal they are still not able to get food, water and medicine into the city.
# mariupol - Monday 14 March, 2022
# Mariupol
# Mariupol
Images of injured pregnant women following shelling in Ukraine shocked the world last week.
# mariupol - Saturday 12 March, 2022
# Russia
# Russia
Earlier Ukraine’s foreign ministry said a mosque sheltering 80 civilians was shelled in Mariupol.
# mariupol - Thursday 10 March, 2022
# Condemnation
# Condemnation
Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney described the attack on the hospital as an “unspeakable act of cruelty”.
# mariupol - Wednesday 9 March, 2022
# Mariupol
# Mariupol
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the strike an ‘atrocity’.
# mariupol - Tuesday 8 March, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
It is not known how long the girl, named only as Tanya, had been under the ruins of her home.
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