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The siege of Mariupol began on 24 February 2022 and lasted until 20 May, as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It saw fighting between the Russian Armed Forces (alongside the Donetsk People's Republic People's Militia ) and the Ukrainian Armed Forces for control over the city of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine.
A downtown street during the siege of Mariupol Aftermath of a rocket strike in the Odesa region, 16 May 2022. According to the Mariupol City Council, 2,357 civilians had been killed during the city's siege. [170] Following a renewed missile attack on 14 March in Mariupol, the Ukrainian government claimed more than 2,500 deaths in the city. [171]
On the following day, the siege of Mariupol was formally concluded as the Ukrainian military personnel in the city's Azovstal agreed to gradually evacuate and surrender to the Russian forces. [ 139 ] [ 141 ] Four days later, the Russians announced that they had taken an additional 2,439 Ukrainians prisoners in Mariupol, bringing the total ...
While Putin's forces carried on with the siege of the southern port city after its defenders refused to surrender, the ground offensive in other parts of the country advanced slowly or not at all ...
Russia claimed to have captured Mariupol on Friday in what would be its biggest victory yet in its war with Ukraine, after a nearly three-month siege that reduced much of the strategic port city ...
Associated Press video journalist Mstyslav Chernov had just broken out of Mariupol after covering the first 20 days of the Russian invasion of the Ukrainian city and was feeling guilty about leaving.
Mariupol city council officials stated that the theatre was the largest single air raid shelter in the city, sheltering 500 [3] to 1,200 [5] civilians, and at the time of the attack, women and children were sheltering in it.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said early Sunday the siege of the port city of Mariupol would go down in history for what he said were war crimes committed by Russian troops. “To do ...