Russian forces on Friday appeared close to capturing the port city of Mariupol, Ukraine, following more than six weeks of bruising setbacks, including the sinking of Moscow's crowning jewel in its Black Sea Fleet.
Mariupol has been the target of massive shelling since the start of the invasion and has been one of the hardest-hit cities. Russian forces have gone after civilians, including children, as well as schools, hospitals, and bread lines. They have cut off lines of communication from the besieged city and, at times, prohibited humanitarian convoys from entering.
An adviser to Mariupol's mayor denied the Kremlin's claims of a mass surrender in the city but conceded that Russian President Vladimir Putin's soldiers had taken some of the remaining Ukrainian fighters as prisoners.Seven people died and 27 other people were wounded in the Ukrainian village of Borovaya after Russian troops opened fire on buses carrying civilians, a spokesman for the regional prosecutor's office told Ukraine's Suspilne news website on Friday.
Ukraine claimed it struck the Soviet-era ship with missiles, while Moscow said a fire that had started on board led to the sinking. As Moscow was assessing its loss at sea, its defense ministry on Friday promised to ramp up"the scale of missile attacks" on the capital city of Kyiv in response to Ukraine's"diversions on the Russian territory."
Russian officials said 100 residential buildings were damaged in Thursday's attack on the Klimovo village in the Bryansk region.
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