Mariupol

One local authority warned that an epidemic of the deadly disease has "more or less begun already" in the besieged city.

Today marks the 100th day since Russia invaded Ukraine. For Putin, it's not gone according to plan.

"Mariupol residents are working for water today," the occupied Ukrainian city's mayor said.

A Russian ministry said the vans were deployed in the city because for nearly three months, the "residents of Mariupol were in an information vacuum due to a lack of power supply."

The pro-Russian People's Militia of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) said they are continuing demining operations after seizing Mariupol last week.

Russian combat engineers demined the bombed-out Azovstal plant in Mariupol after Russian troops stormed and destroyed large parts of it on April 19.

"Now we will never know how many civilians from Mariupol were actually killed by a Russian bomb at the Drama Theater," wrote an adviser to the city's mayor.

The Russian Ministry of Defense says that nearly 1,000 Ukrainian fighters have surrendered at the Azovstal plant in the war-torn city of Mariupol so far this week.

Denis Pushilin, head of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic, also said that a technology park could be built on the site of the Azovstal steel plant.

The Azovstal steel plant where Ukrainian soldiers have been holed up has been subjected to Russian attacks for weeks.

Images and footage on social media showed plumes of white smoke falling over the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine.

Russia said Tuesday that 265 Ukrainian fighters of the Azov Battalion surrendered at the besieged Azovstal plant, and more than 50 were in need of urgent medical attention.

Russia might want to avoid having to exchange captured members of Ukraine's Azov regiment, who have been called "Nazi criminals."

Mariupol residents must blame Ukrainian troops and President Zelensky for destroyed housing or killed family members to get the money, a mayoral adviser warned.

One Ukrainian fighter trapped inside said Saturday that the plant's hospital ward is "completely unsanitary" with swarming flies and "disgusting" odors.

A Ukrainian fighter has described the nightmarish conditions of wounded soldiers inside the besieged Azovstal steel plant in besieged Mariupol.

A Ukrainian Marine commander trapped in a besieged steel plant made the desperate plea to Elon Musk, the world's richest man.

The footage was allegedly filmed at the Azovstal iron and steel plant in the under-siege Ukrainian city of Mariupol.

The edited remarks of Gao Yusheng, China's former envoy to Kyiv, were deleted within hours of going live on a Chinese news site.

"The occupiers celebrate Victory Day on the bones of Mariupol," the city council said.

About 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers are believed to be defending the plant against Russian attacks.

The assessment by the Institute for the Study of War said Ukraine was making gains in an important phase of the battle in the eastern Donbass region.

"We are fighting for an educated nation," said the teacher turned soldier. "If I did not give lectures, it would be a sin. Why did I go to war?"

White phosphorus is a toxic, wax-like substance that is yellow or colorless, made from phosphate rocks. It is used to burn its targets.

A search by Newsweek on a local recruiting website found more than a dozen job adverts hiring recruits in mobilization training.

The Russian president is likely to "desire to have a symbolic success in Ukraine" before the upcoming May 9 Victory Day commemorations, the U.K. said.

Russian forces intend to hold a "parade on the bones of Mariupol citizens," an adviser to the city's mayor said.

Ukrainian journalist Andriy Tsaplienko posted on Facebook a burnt out T-90M.

"Despite all the statements by Russian officials that Mariupol is under their full control, this is not true," Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Wednesday.

"The fact that Zelensky is Jewish does not negate the Nazi elements in Ukraine," the Russian foreign minister said.