# mariupol

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2022

# Severodonetsk

Ukraine says key city in Donbas region now largely under Russian control

The strategic city has become the focus of Russia’s offensive as it seeks to seize an eastern swathe of Ukraine.

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Jun 8th 2022, 11:05 PM

# Ukraine

Russia says 1,730 Mariupol fighters have surrendered as US grants $40 billion dollars to 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.

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May 19th 2022, 10:40 AM

# Ukraine

Russian soldier pleads guilty at Kyiv war crimes trial as world leaders consider tribunal

Meanwhile, Ukrainian fighters extracted from the last bastion of resistance in Mariupol have been taken to a former penal colony in enemy-controlled territory.

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May 18th 2022, 6:47 PM

# mariupol

Russia says hundreds of Ukrainians surrender at Azovstal steel plant

Ukraine’s defence ministry confirmed the soldiers had left Azovstal, expressing hope for an “exchange procedure.”

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May 17th 2022, 7:04 PM

# NATO

Russia continues assault on east Ukraine as Finland moves towards joining 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.

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May 12th 2022, 10:42 PM

# Ukraine

One killed after Russia fires hypersonic missiles at Odesa as ’44 civilians found dead in Izyum’

The civilians were inside a five-storey building that collapsed in Izyum in the Kharkiv region in March.

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.

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May 10th 2022, 1:45 PM

# Ukraine

EU's Charles Michel forced to take cover during strike in Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that his country would not allow Russia to appropriate victory in World War II.

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May 9th 2022, 3:45 PM

# Ukraine

60 feared dead after school bombed in east Ukraine as Mariupol braces for renewed offensive

Russian forces may be seeking to hand President Vladimir Putin a critical win ahead of the country’s victory day tomorrow.

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May 8th 2022, 12:08 PM

# Ukraine

Russia steps up Ukraine assaults ahead of Victory Day parades

Fighting continues on many fronts, and Ukraine’s defence ministry said it had destroyed another Russian vessel in the Black Sea.

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May 7th 2022, 7:45 PM

# siege of mariupol

‘We’re so sorry’: Mariupol steel plant evacuees feel relief and grief

Survivors have described for the Associated Press their two months at the centre of hell, and their escape.

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May 6th 2022, 10:53 PM

# Ukraine

UN sends new Mariupol convoy to rescue civilians from 'bleak hell'

Ten weeks into the war, Russia has focused its efforts on Ukraine’s east and south.

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May 6th 2022, 7:08 AM

# Ukraine

Ukraine Forces have contradicted Kremlin claims that humanitarian corridors at Mariupol are 'functioning'

Russia’s defence ministry announced a daytime ceasefire for three days beginning today to evacuate civilians from the plant.

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May 5th 2022, 3:35 PM

# war crime probe

Evidence points to 600 dead in Mariupol theatre airstrike – double the previous estimate

The Ukrainian Government estimated early on that around 300 people died and has since opened a war crimes investigation.

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May 4th 2022, 6:49 PM

# Ukraine

Russian forces press Ukraine offensive as further evacuations from Mariupol to take place

Local authorities said 21 civilians were killed and another 28 wounded in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region yesterday.

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May 4th 2022, 7:12 AM

# Ukraine

More than 100 civilians brought to safety out of Mariupol as Russia strikes factory in Donetsk

The UK and EU are moving to give more support to Ukraine and further sanction Russia respectively.

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May 3rd 2022, 10:49 PM

# Ukraine

Russia plans to 'annex' Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions, US official says

The evacuation of Mariupol was delayed today amid heavy fighting in Ukraine’s east.

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May 2nd 2022, 7:55 PM

# Ukraine

Russian defence ministry says 80 Mariupol civilians have been handed over to UN or Red Cross

Earlier efforts at evacuations from the plant, the last site in the city still held by Ukrainian soldiers, had failed.

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May 1st 2022, 7:30 PM

# mariupol

Mayor of besieged Mariupol describes ‘dire’ conditions at steel mill

The mill is the last site in the city still held by Ukrainian soldiers who are encircled by Russian troops.

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Apr 29th 2022, 7:50 PM

# Ukraine

Five people killed and 18 injured in strikes on central Ukrainian railway stations

There have been several Russian attacks against Ukrainian rail and fuel facilities.

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Apr 25th 2022, 9:47 PM

# Ukraine

Top US officials to visit Kyiv as Orthodox Easter marked by war

The trip by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin comes as the war enters its third month.

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Apr 24th 2022, 3:20 PM

# Ukraine

New images reveal possible mass graves near Mariupol as Zelenskyy says city 'continues to resist'

Russia says it has “liberated” the city, with just a few thousand Ukrainian soldiers left in the Azovstal plant complex.

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Apr 22nd 2022, 7:12 AM

AS IT HAPPENED

Satellite image shows mass grave near Mariupol as Putin orders blockade of city's steel plant

Russia issued another call yesterday for the devastated port city’s defenders to surrender.

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.

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Apr 21st 2022, 7:10 PM

# Ukraine

Ukraine receives missiles from Norway amid warning Mariupol defenders are facing 'last days'

Commander Serhiy Volyna said his marines are “maybe facing our last days, if not hours”.

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Apr 20th 2022, 10:45 AM

# battle for the donbas

Russian forces attacking along broad east front, Ukraine says

Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed that his forces will “fight” and “defend ourselves” in a bullish video address.

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Apr 19th 2022, 7:55 PM

# mariupol

'Powerful' strikes on Lviv kill seven people as Russia tries to seize full control of Mariupol

Ukraine has pledged to fight on and defend the port city.

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Apr 18th 2022, 12:57 PM

# mariupol

Strikes leave five dead in Kharkiv, as Russian ultimatum to Mariupol ends

Zelenskyy has warned that peace talks with Moscow will be scrapped if the last Ukrainian troops in Mariupol are killed.

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Apr 17th 2022, 2:10 PM

# mariupol

Joe Biden accuses Putin's forces of 'genocide' in Ukraine for the first time

“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.

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Apr 13th 2022, 7:20 AM

# Ukraine

Russia closes on Mariupol as US warns of chemical threat

Reports emerged yesterday from Ukraine’s Azov battalion that a Russian drone had dropped a “poisonous substance” in the area.

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Apr 12th 2022, 9:42 PM

# mariupol

Explainer: How could it be determined that Russia used chemical weapons in Ukraine?

There are unconfirmed reports that chemical weapons were used in the city of Mariupol.

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Apr 12th 2022, 6:30 PM

# Ukraine

'Hellscape' in Mariupol where 100,000 people are trapped as Kremlin denies invasion has stalled

Tens of thousands of residents have already fled the besieged southern port city.

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Mar 23rd 2022, 7:03 AM

# war reporting

‘The Russians were hunting us down’: Journalist’s account of fleeing Mariupol

This is Associated Press video journalist Mstyslav Chernov’s account of the siege of Mariupol, as documented with photographer Evgeniy Maloletka.

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Mar 21st 2022, 2:55 PM

# Ukraine

Russian strikes on Mariupol continue as forces face food supply issues

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a fresh appeal for talks with Moscow yesterday.

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Mar 19th 2022, 7:43 AM

# Air Strikes

One person killed after downed Russian rocket strikes Kyiv apartment block

It comes as US President Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a war criminal.

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Mar 17th 2022, 7:55 AM

# mariupol

Mariupol theatre sheltering hundreds of civilians hit by Russian air strike

Mariupol’s mayoral office said that the strike was carried out on purpose by Russia.

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Mar 16th 2022, 8:35 PM

# Ukraine

'Hundreds' will die within days if aid does not reach Mariupol, deputy mayor says

The International Committee for the Red Cross told The Journal they are still not able to get food, water and medicine into the city.

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Mar 15th 2022, 3:06 PM

# mariupol

Pregnant woman and baby die after Russian bombing of maternity ward

Images of injured pregnant women following shelling in Ukraine shocked the world last week.

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Mar 14th 2022, 8:36 AM

# Russia

Russia says it could target Western arms supplies to Ukraine

Earlier Ukraine’s foreign ministry said a mosque sheltering 80 civilians was shelled in Mariupol.

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Mar 12th 2022, 11:20 AM

# Condemnation

Mariupol residents face food and gas shortages as EU calls attack on hospital a war crime

Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney described the attack on the hospital as an “unspeakable act of cruelty”.

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Mar 10th 2022, 8:23 PM

# mariupol

Russian airstrike on children's hospital injures 17, as Mariupol mayor reports 1,207 civilian deaths

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the strike an ‘atrocity’.

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Mar 9th 2022, 10:30 PM

# Ukraine

Ukrainian girl dies of dehydration under rubble of home, says Mariupol mayor

It is not known how long the girl, named only as Tanya, had been under the ruins of her home.

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Mar 8th 2022, 4:54 PM