Horrifying satellite images show the devastation of Maripol city in eastern Ukraine after days of Russian air strikes.
At least 1,500 people are believed to have been killed in the besieged city since Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine began on February 24.
Images taken on Saturday, March 12, by private US satellite firm Maxar show fires burning in Mariupol and dozens of apartment buildings burnt to the ground.
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Put alongside images taken of the city from last year, the destruction caused by Russian bombing is clear.
Extensive damage has been caused to civilian infrastructure in and around the city, including residential homes, high-rise apartment buildings, grocery stores and shopping centres.
The United Nation's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said there are now reports of "looting and violent confrontations among civilians over what little basic supplies remain in the city", the Mirror reports.
"Medicines for life-threatening illnesses are quickly running out, hospitals are only partially functioning, and the food and water are in short supply," OCHA said in a statement.
Ukraine’s military said Russian forces have now captured Mariupol’s eastern outskirts.
On Friday, Mariupol City Council claimed at least 1,582 civilians had been killed in the city as a result of Russian shelling. It is not yet possible to independently verify these figures.
The city has endured some of the worst of Russia's attacks, and efforts to get supplies of food, water and medicine into the port city, and to get civilians out, have been thwarted by continued shelling.
Talks aimed at reaching a ceasefire again failed the weekend. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of trying to break his country apart, as well as starting “a new stage of terror” with the alleged kidnap of a mayor from a city west of Mariupol.
Ukrainian officials have also claimed that Russian soldiers pillaged a humanitarian convoy that was trying to reach Mariupol and blocked another.
An Associated Press journalist witnessed tanks firing on a nine-storey apartment building in Mariupol on Friday. The journalist was with a group of hospital workers who came under sniper fire, one of who was shot in the hip.
Aid group Doctors Without Borders said residents are dying from a lack of medication and are draining heating pipes for drinking water.
Russian forces have hit at least two dozen hospitals and medical facilities, according to the World Health Organisation.
Earlier in the week, three people including a child were killed in a Russian strike on a maternity and children's hospital in the city, officials said. Some 17 people were also reportedly injured, including staff and patients.
The Mariupol city council said the strike had caused "colossal damage", and published footage showing burned out buildings, destroyed cars and a huge crater outside the hospital.
At least 2.5 million people have fled the country, according to the United Nations refugee agency.
Thousands of soldiers on both sides are believed to have been killed along with many civilians, including at least 79 Ukrainian children, its government says.
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