Mariupol

Dozens of soldiers freed after Russia-Ukraine swap prisoners of war

Top Ukrainian presidential aide Andriy Yermak said in a Telegram post that 116 Ukrainians were freed. Russian defense officials, meanwhile, announced that 63 Russian troops had returned from Ukraine following the swap

Russian propagandists 'accidentally' reveal Moscow's lies, show rebuilt Mariupol homes marred with faults

The very few Ukrainians, who did not flee Mariupol after Russia seized the port city, have complained of flooded apartments and shoddy workmanship of the buildings which have been commissioned by Russian authorities

Russia erases Mariupol's Ukraine identity by tearing out bombed out buildings, builds on death

Many of Mariupol's Ukrainian street names are reverting to Soviet ones. Even the large sign that announces the name of the city at its entrance has been Russified, repainted with the red, white and blue of the Russian flag and the Russian spelling

Russian military scrubs off Mariupol’s Ukrainian past, renames street to 'Lenin Avenue'

Eight months after Mariupol fell into Russian hands, Russia is eradicating all vestiges of Ukraine from it – along with the evidence of war crimes buried in its buildings

Ukraine stalemate sets stage for possible winter escalation

Many observers see the current deadlock as beneficial to Ukraine, allowing it to receive more state-of-the-art weapons from the West and prepare for new counteroffensives. In Russia, there is a growing sense of desperation about what they see as President Vladimir Putin's lack of a clear strategy

'The impossible': Ukraine's secret, deadly rescue missions

Fighters at Azovstal deterred Moscow's plan to take over Mariupol greatly, such soldiers cannot be forgotten, expressed the one-man mission pilot Oleksandr

'Endless caravan of death': More bodies found in Mariupol as global food crisis looms

In many of Mariupol's buildings, workers are finding 50 to 100 bodies each, according to a mayoral aide in the Russian-held port city in the south

Ukraine Russia war: 200 bodies found in basement in Mariupol's ruins

Mariupol was relentlessly pounded during a nearly three-month siege that ended last week after some 2,500 Ukrainian fighters abandoned a steel plant where they had made their stand

Red Cross registers hundreds of Ukrainian prisoners of war from Mariupol

The International Committee of the Red Cross said that the registrations of Ukrainian prisoners of war began on 17 May under an agreement between Russia and Ukraine

Russia-Ukraine war: Moscow's defence ministry says 265 Ukrainian soldiers 'surrendered' at besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol

Of the total 265 Ukrainian soldiers, who surrendered at Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, 51 were 'heavily wounded' and had been transferred to a hospital in the town of Novoazovsk, Russia's defence ministry said