Moscow demands surrender in Mariupol, but Ukrainian fighters hold the fort. A Russian naval operation is currently being prepared in the southeastern port city. Day 53 in the Ukraine War.
- Russia has given Mariupol an ultimatum that expired on Sunday followingnoon: The Port city of Mariupol is to capitulate. But around 400 Ukrainian soldiers and mercenaries were holed up in a steelworks. A Russian ministry spokesman threatens that “if there is further resistance, they will all be destroyed.”
- According to a media report, the Russian Ministry of Defense has one almost complete expulsion the Ukrainian forces from Mariupol reported. Accordingly, the Ukrainians are said to have lost more than 4,000 military personnel in the besieged coastal city. The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Selensky threatened the end of the talks with Moscow if Russia “eliminated” the last Ukrainian troops in the port city.
- When attacking Charkiw According to rescue workers, at least five people have been killed in northeastern Ukraine. AFP journalists heard two waves of attacks on Sunday and saw multiple fires spreading through residential neighborhoods in the center of the country’s second-largest city, causing roofs to collapse. A representative of the rescue workers said that it was next to at least five fatalities also 13 injured have given.