MARIUPOL, UKRAINE – MAY 27, 2022: A makeshift market in the port city of Mariupol. The Russian Armed Forces are carrying out a special military operation in Ukraine in response to requests from the leaders of the Donetsk People's Republic and Lugansk People's Republic for help. Vladimir Gerdo/TASS/Sipa USA
Ukraine: Situation in Mariupol
KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials and international observers are raising concerns that Russia’s relentless attacks on the country’s eastern Donbas region carry echoes of an earlier devastating assault on the port of Mariupol. The fighting Friday focused on two key cities: Sievierodonetsk and nearby Lysychansk. Ukraine’s foreign minister warned that without a new injection of foreign weapons, Ukrainian forces would not be able to stop Russia’s advance in the region, where separatists claimed to have captured a railway hub. Now in ruins, the port of Mariupol was constantly barraged by Russian forces in a nearly three-month siege. The battle ended last week when Russia claimed its capture. More than 20,000 of its civilians are feared dead.
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