The Latest Breaking News from Mariupol

Ukraine has banned wheat exports in an effort to stave off food shortages, civilians are seeking escape routes and concerns are intensifying over safety at the country's nuclear plants, including Chernobyl

Ukraine will on Wednesday try to ensure civilians can evacuate the country through six "humanitarian corridors", including from the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk says.

A bright blue tarp lies crumpled on the street of the besieged port of Mariupol, two sneakered feet protruding from one end. A man stands atop the remains of a bridge struck by Russian military forces, the former span now a crooked skeleton of bent steel, broken concrete and splintered…

KYIV, Ukraine — World condemnation of Russia’s war against neighboring Ukraine intensified Tuesday as a trickle of trapped civilians from one city made their way toward relative safety, but another agreed-upon pathway, from a battered and encircled seaport, came under Russian bombardment.

Ukraine accused Russia on Wednesday of bombing a children's hospital in the besieged port city of Mariupol, breaking a ceasefire agreement to enable some of the hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in the city to escape.

The Kremlin has pledged to let civilians safely exit Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Mariupol

Ukraine news for March 9: Russian attack hits a children’s hospital in besieged port city, Ukrainian officials say.

Tanya's mother was killed in the blitz

Ukraine accuses Russia of shelling humanitarian corridor from the besieged city of Mariupol as some civilians flee Sumy.