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'Where is Mama?' - How a Ukrainian boy was abducted by Russian forces

Sasha and his family lived in Mariupol. In the first month of the full-scale invasion, he was forcefully separated from his mother and brought to occupied Donetsk. For weeks, his grandmother Liudmyla didn't know whether he was dead or alive.

18/05/2024

Ukraine

Russian soldiers continue their campaign for coerced votes in Mariupol

Soldiers continue their door-to-door campaign to solicit coerced votes in Mariupol

17/03/2024

Culture news

Ukraine wins its first Oscar for war documentary '20 Days in Mariupol'

Zelensky has praised Ukraine's first-ever Oscar won by 20 Days In Mariupol, a documentary about the siege on the city.

12/03/2024

World News

Ukraine's Mariupol 'barely recognisable' two years into war: Report

Mariupol has suffered some of the worst physical destruction of any other place in Ukraine during the full-scale invasion. But the number of fatalities in the now Moscow-controlled territory is still unknown.

08/02/2024

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Aftermath of deadly Kryvyi Rih strike, Mariupol marks Russia Day

Ukrainian police on Tuesday began collecting evidence in the aftermath of the Russian bombing of a civilian apartment block in the city of Kryvyi Rih. This follows Russia Day celebrations organised by Moscow-installed authorities in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol on Monday.

13/06/2023

Ukraine

Euroviews. I escaped from Mariupol — a city that no longer exists

Mariupol used to be a beautiful town before the war. Now, I want to feel like I have a home again, but not in Mariupol, because it's the past, unfortunately, Olga Shults writes.

24/05/2023

Ukraine

Freed Ukrainian POWs show signs of torture, claims official

More than 80 Ukrainian and Russian prisoners of war were released this week in prisoner swaps, officials from both sides confirmed.

27/04/2023

Ukraine

Mariupol women’s football team defy occupation and play on for Ukraine

Despite the destruction of their home city in Russia's invasion, a women's football team from Mariupol has been reborn in Kyiv with 27 players in the squad.

23/04/2023

World News

Evgeniy Maloletka wins World Press Photo of the Year award

The photographer won the prize for his image of emergency workers carrying a pregnant woman through a shattered maternity hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol.

20/04/2023

Ukraine

'It's all lies': Putin reportedly heckled by woman on Mariupol trip

In the video circulating online, the Russian president's security detail can be seen desperately looking around to see where the shout came from.

20/03/2023

Ukraine

Wagner chief suggests 'treason' during battle of Bakhmut

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the millionaire owner of the Wagner Group military company that has spearheaded the Bakhmut offensive, has been at loggerheads with the Russian Defense Ministry and repeatedly accused it of failing to provide his forces with ammunition.

06/03/2023

Ukraine

In occupied Mariupol, Russia's rebuild is erasing Ukrainian identity

The key southern port city has become well-known worldwide as the site of death and destruction brought on by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in late February. Now, Moscow is rushing to paper over the devastation it caused.

22/12/2022

World News

New satellite images show destruction of Russian-occupied Mariupol

Before and after images taken on March 29 and November 30 show a large protective screen around Mariupol’s main theatre, which was shelled while being used as a civilian shelter in March

03/12/2022

Europe News

'We will fight. We are unbreakable': Mariupol survivor tells her story

Kateryna Polishchuk was holed up in the Azovstal steel plant during the last weeks of the Mariupol siege.

01/12/2022

Europe News

Russian forces are 'inhumane' and use torture, Mariupol survivor says

Ukrainian military medic Yulia "Taira" Paievska was captured by Russian forces during the siege of the key port city. She talked to Euronews in Brussels about her experience.

10/11/2022

Travel News

Ukraine honours train heroes who helped millions evacuate safely

Seven train carriages dedicated to Ukraine’s occupied zones have been painted by the country’s best artists to celebrate railroad heroes.

31/08/2022

Ukraine

Ukraine war: Five key developments to know about today

From Russia blaming Ukraine for the car bomb attack that killed Daria Dugina to Ukraine claiming it has lost about 9,000 servicepeople since February, here are some of the most important developments this Monday.

22/08/2022

Ukraine

Kyiv and Moscow point fingers over deadly prison bombing

The Kremlin-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine say that at least 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war captured during the fighting for Mariupol have been killed by Ukrainian shelling.

29/07/2022

Ukraine

What happened to the Mariupol defenders taken captive by Russia?

With no news from the Azov fighters, their families are campaigning to bring the fate of the combatants into the spotlight.

24/06/2022

Ukraine

Ukrainian medic who filmed Mariupol siege thanks Zelenskyy for release

The video posted on social media came after the Ukrainian president announced Paievska, also known as Taira, was home.

19/06/2022