Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Mariupol ‘destroyed completely’: Zelensky

Volodymyr Zelensky

The southern port city of Mariupol has been utterly destroyed, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and there is nothing left to fall to Russians but the city’s beleaguered steelworks. Zelensky, speaking on a video call to the Chatham House think-tank in London, was asked how the fall of the strategic city could affect the … Read more

Russia steps up Ukraine assaults ahead of Victory Day parades

ukraine

On Saturday, Ukraine attempted to evacuate additional residents from a besieged Mariupol steel mill as Russian forces launched further bombardments across the nation ahead of Moscow’s Victory Day celebrations. The Azovstal steel mill is the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the devastated port city and its fate has taken on a symbolic value in … Read more