The Latest Breaking News from Mariupol

Ukraine on Monday said tens of thousands of people have likely been killed in Russia's assault on the southeastern city of Mariupol while the country's rights ombudswoman accused Russian forces in the region of torture and executions.

Footage was shared by Armed Forces of Ukraine on April 8 with the message: "Azov in Mariupol continues to destroy the enemy."

Seoul (AFP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that he believed "tens of thousands" of people in Mariupol had been killed, as he asked South Korean lawmakers to provide military assistance.

Warlord Ramzan Kadyrov - leader of Chechnya and a lieutenant-general in the Russian national guard - also called on Putin not to abandon his aim of seizing Kyiv despite the current pullback

White phosphorus is not banned under international convention when it is used as a smokescreen, but as an incendiary weapon in civilian areas, it is forbidden under the Geneva convention

Ukraine is braced for a Russian onslaught in the country’s east, while the southern city of Mariupol remains under siege.

Tens of thousands of people have likely been killed in Russia's assault on the southeastern city of Mariupol, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday, as he asked Seoul for any military aid it could provide.

Fighting in the beseiged port city is intensifying with Russian generals using indiscriminate shelling

Karl Nehammer will be first EU leader to meet Russian president since invasion began, and called for a ceasefire and full investigation of war crimes

Health worker describes aftermath of maternity hospital attack and her own facility’s takeover by Russian soldiers

Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk on Sunday said that Kyiv had agreed the use of nine humanitarian corridors to help people to escape heavy fighting in the east of the country, including in private cars from Mariupol. "All the routes for the humanitarian corridors in the Luhansk region will…