Smoke rises from the grounds of the Azovstal steel plant in the city of Mariupol on April 29, 2022, amid the ongoing Russian military action in Ukraine. Andrey BORODULIN / AFP KYIV, Ukraine -- At least 20 civilians including several children were able to leave a badly battered steel plant in the...
KRAMATORSK, Ukraine – Ukraine received fighter jets to help resist the Russian invasion, as Moscow intensified its offensive in the east where a besieged officer in Mariupol warned Wednesday his forces were facing their "last days, if not hours". The West has responded to a renewed Russian...
KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukraine on Monday rejected an ultimatum to surrender the besieged city of Mariupol, its deputy prime minister told local media, demanding Moscow instead allow hundreds of thousands of terrified residents safe passage out. "We can't talk about surrendering weapons," Iryna Vereshchuk...
KYIV, Ukraine – Ukrainian authorities on Sunday accused Russian forces of bombing a school in the besieged city of Mariupol where some 400 people, including women and children had been sheltering, and of deporting some residents to Russia. Mariupol has been one of the main targets of...
KYIV, Ukraine – Nineteen children, most of them orphans, have lived in harrowing conditions after being stuck in a clinic in Ukraine's besieged city of Mariupol for weeks, a carer, a witness and a charity told AFP. The witness who managed to get out, Alexei Voloshchuk, told AFP that the...
KYIV, Ukraine – Russian forces inched towards Kyiv Saturday and pounded civilian areas in other Ukrainian cities as concerns grew over the besieged southern port of Mariupol, where officials said more than 1,500 people had been killed. Air raid sirens sounded Saturday in several cities,...
UNITED NATIONS, United States – The United Nations' reproductive health agency announced Thursday that two other Ukrainian maternity hospitals had been attacked and destroyed before Russia's strike on a facility in the southeastern city of Mariupol on Wednesday. The hospital in Mariupol is...
KYIV, Ukraine – A total of 1,207 civilians have died during a nine-day siege by Russian forces of Ukraine's port city of Mariupol, its local authorities said Wednesday. The first nine days of the Russian siege saw "1,207 peaceful Mariupol residents dying", the authorities of the southeastern...
