The Latest Breaking News from Mariupol

Britain hit “The butcher of Mariupol” with sanctions on Thursday.

Around 170,000 are thought to be trapped in the city that has suffered the worst of Russia’s shelling

Kyiv has accused Moscow of forcibly relocating thousands of people from Mariupol to Russia

Teams from the International Committee of the Red Cross are on their way to the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol with aid supplies and stand ready to evacuate civilians, it said on Thursday.

Parliamentary Human Rights Commissioner Liudmyla Denisova claims more than 70 mums and their newborns, as well as doctors, have been snatched from Mariupol by invading troops

Ukraine said a convoy of 45 buses was on its way to the battered city of Mariupol Thursday in an attempt to deliver humanitarian aid and evacuate civilians. The move comes after Russia declared a local ceasefire to allow a humanitarian corridor to be established there – but not everyone…

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Ukraine said Thursday it was sending dozens of buses to evacuate civilians from the besieged city of Mariupol after a Russian ceasefire announcement, but dismissed Kremlin promises to scale back attacks on the capital saying forces were simply regrouping to target the east.

Russia and Ukraine both say they are making efforts to help civilians evacuate westwards out of the besieged port city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine

A convoy of buses set out for the besieged southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol on Thursday to try to deliver humanitarian supplies and bring out civilians, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk and the Red Cross said.

The big stories from day 35 of the Russian invasion

Amid the burnt-out frames of shelled buildings and bare branches of trees, only a children's playground set, now abandoned, lends colour to this neighbourhood in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol.