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Russia has gained full control of Ukraine's Mariupol after the last Ukrainian soldiers were evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant on Monday. Late on Monday, Ukraine’s deputy defense minister, Hanna Maliar, said that 53 heavily wounded soldiers were evacuated...

An ethnic Greek fighter of the Azov battalion in Mariupol who appeared in a short video recently viewed in the Greek Parliament was killed in action, Ukraine's ambassador to Greece confirmed. The man who had identified himself only by his...

On Thursday, President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian military to cancel plans to storm a Mariupol steelworks, and declared the Ukrainian port city "liberated." Instead of launching a final assault on the Azovstal steel plant—the last bastion of Ukrainian resistance...

Ukrainian soldiers hiding away in a steel factory in the shattered city of Mariupol ignored a Russian surrender-or-die ultimatum on Sunday. The Russian Armed Forces, which claimed the city has been “completely cleared,” issued an ultimatum on Saturday, urging their...

Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected on Tuesday the initiative by Greece, France and Turkey to send a humanitarian mission to the besieged city of Mariupol in Ukraine. The office of French President Emmanuel Macron said that the operation was not...

The city of Mariupol in southern Ukraine is "in the hands of the occupiers today," Vadym Boychenko, the city's mayor stated during an interview with the UNIAN news agency on Monday. The city has been the target of Russian attacks...

France's President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday he was coordinating efforts with Greece and Turkey for an initiative to help people leave the besieged city of Mariupol. Macron said he hoped to convince Russia to allow the evacuation during talks...

Ukraine's officials at the city of Mariupol said on Friday that around 300 people were killed at the bombing of a theatre last week. Petr Andryuschenko, advisor to the deputy mayor of Mariupol, in an interview with Newshour on the...

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said on Tuesday that he intends to accompany a humanitarian mission to Mariupol, Ukraine that is being flattened by constant Russian shelling. "I am requesting today in an official note sent to the Ukrainian side...

Ukraine has rejected a deadline given by Russia for forces to surrender the city of Mariupol by 05:00 Moscow time, 04:00 local time on Monday. “Lay down your arms,” Col-Gen Mikhail Mizintsev, the director of the Russian national defense management...

Russian forces bombed an art school in the city of Mariupol, Ukraine where 400 people sought shelter, Ukrainian officials announced on Sunday. Ukrainian officials stated that the entire building was reduced to rubble, and claimed that there were likely many...

Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday said the country is ready to rebuild a maternity hospital destroyed last week by Russian shelling in the southeast Ukrainian city of Mariupol. “I want to express my abhorrence for what is happening...

A Greek official, who was the last remaining western diplomat in Mariupol, Ukraine, described harrowing scenes that may constitute war crimes after he was finally evacuated from the city. Manolis Androulakis, Greece's Consul General, who spoke to journalist Kostas Onisenko...

Officials in Ukraine said on Wednesday that Russian forces bombed a theater where civilians were sheltering in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol. The Mariupol council posted an image of the city’s theater, showing it had sustained heavy damage...

Ukraine claimed on Wednesday that a Russian strike hit a children's and maternity hospital in the southeastern city of Mariupol - which has already suffered days of shelling. President Zelensky tweeted footage from the incident -- which he described as...