The Latest Breaking News from Mariupol

Russia's defense ministry said on Friday it had struck a military target on the edge of Kyiv overnight with cruise missiles and promised more strikes against the Ukrainian capital in response to Ukrainian attacks on Russian targets. The ministry said its forces had also taken full control of the Ilyich…

Unbroken by a Russian blockade and relentless bombardment, the key port of Mariupol is still holding out, a symbol of staunch Ukrainian resistance that has thwarted the Kremlin’s invasion plans

On a day that saw Russia suffer a stinging symbolic defeat with the loss of its Black Sea fleet flagship, Ukraine’s president has hailed his people for their resolve since Russia invaded in February and for making “the most important decision of their life – to fight.”

Ukraine said on Friday it was trying to break Russia's siege of Mariupol as fighting raged around the city's massive steel works and port, and the capital Kyiv was rocked by some of the most powerful explosions in two weeks.

Aiden Aslin, 28, from Newark, Notts., was forcibly interviewed by a Russian broadcaster after his unit surrendered in the besieged city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine

Ukrainian officials said their forces hit the vessel with missiles

The head of the U.N.’s World Food Program says people are being “starved to death” in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, and he predicted the country’s humanitarian crisis is likely to worsen as Russia intensifies its assault in the coming weeks

Diplomats working to find Aiden Aslin, who was forced to surrender to Russian troops with his unit in Mariupol

Aiden Aslin, from Newark, Notts., was captured after his unit ran out of ammunition and food while fighting Russian forces in the besieged city of Mariupol, in eastern Ukraine