[ad_1] For more than 80 days, Mariupol endured a brutal and unrelenting bombardment, as Russian forces determined to take the port city reduced much of it to rubble. In March 2022, a few days after the war began, Russian forces cut off electricity, water and gas supplies, forcing residents toContinue Reading
[ad_1] A Ukrainian community in southern Brazil has decided to turn its local football team into FC Mariupol, a top-flight club disbanded after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in a show of solidarity with the war-torn country. AA Batel, a team from the Prudentópolis region in Paraná, said on Monday theyContinue Reading
[ad_1] Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin has paid a surprise visit to Mariupol — the Ukrainian port city captured by Russian forces, the media reported. The visit is believed to be Putin’s first to a newly-occupied Ukrainian territory. In a video, Putin is seen driving a car through streets atContinue Reading
[ad_1] The trip also came ahead of a planned visit to Moscow by Chinese President Xi Jinping this week, expected to provide a major diplomatic boost to Putin in his confrontation with the West. Putin arrived in Mariupol by helicopter and then drove himself around the city’s “memorial sites,” concertContinue Reading
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. A provocative Vladimir Putin made a surprise weekend visit to Russian-occupied Mariupol, one of the symbols of Ukrainian resistance. Mariupol, a port city on the Sea of Azov, is located in Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast and this is theContinue Reading