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The Russian army and separatists from Donetsk are fighting “nationalists” in the centre of Mariupol, Russia’s defence ministry said. The strategically important port city has been surrounded for some time.

 

Mariupol is one of the hardest-hit cities during the three-week war in Ukraine.

According to the Ukrainian government, about 90 percent of the city has been destroyed, and residents have been without electricity, gas, and water for a long time. There is also a shortage of food.

In recent days, tens of thousands of Mariupol residents have been evacuated via humanitarian corridors to Zaporizhzhya, a city slightly more westerly in Ukraine.

Ukrainian authorities are also trying to evacuate civilians from cities on the front lines of the fighting on Friday.

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