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Russia renews assault on Mariupol, intensifies Luhansk bombardment: Ukraine

More than 1,000 civilians are holed up with the troops at the Azovstal plant, according to Ukrainian authorities

People drive past a fire at a gas pipeline after the neighbourhood was shelled from Russian positions in Kharkiv as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues (Photo: Reuters)
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People drive past a fire at a gas pipeline after the neighbourhood was shelled from Russian positions in Kharkiv as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues (Photo: Reuters)

Reuters KYIV/MARIUPOL, Ukraine
Russia resumed its assault on the last Ukrainian defenders holed up in a giant steel works in Mariupol, a Ukrainian official said on Saturday, days after Moscow declared victory in the southern port city and said its forces did not need to take the factory.

Russian forces were hitting the Azovstal complex with air strikes and trying to storm it, presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said, adding "the enemy is trying to strangle the final resistance of Mariupol's defenders".

The biggest battle of the conflict has raged for weeks as Russia seeks to capture a city seen as crucial to its attempts to

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