Mariupol on the brink after troops refuse Russian ultimatum to surrender

Mariupol appears to be on the brink of falling to Russian forces. Taking the battered Ukrainian city would be seen as a crucial strategic victory for Putin's military.

Mariupol appears to be on the brink of falling to Russian forces today, after missing a deadline to surrender following seven weeks under siege.

They had been given a deadline to surrender and ‘keep their lives’, but Ukraine did not submit and the deadline has passed. Ukrainian deputy defence minister Hanna Malyar described Mariupol as a ‘shield defending Ukraine’ as Russian troops prepare for a full-scale offensive in Donbas, the country’s eastern industrial heartland where Moscow-backed separatists already control some territory.

The ongoing siege and relentless bombardment of Mariupol has come at a terrible cost, with officials estimating Russians had killed at least 21,000 people. Just 120,000 people remain in the city, out of a pre-war population of 450,000.

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