Timeline: A look back at Mariupol in ruins as Russia-Ukraine conflict enters 100th day

Record ID: 1686250

  • Title: Timeline: A look back at Mariupol in ruins as Russia-Ukraine conflict enters 100th day
  • Date: 12th April 2022
  • Summary: Mariupol’s residents picked through their ruined houses looking for their belongings and cooked in the streets on Friday (April 29). Furniture was piled outside burned-out apartment buildings as people and people fished off the quayside as explosions could be heard in the background. MARIUPOL, UKRAINE (RECENT - APRIL 29, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF DESTROYED HOUSE (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) 85-YEAR-OLD MARIUPOL RESIDENT, LIDYA NEDOBRYATKO, SAYING: "I want someone to help me. I have problem with my legs, I can't walk. I need help. For now I am just abandoned, I sit here and I sleep in a basement." PEOPLE FISHING FISHING FLOAT IN WATER TWO PEOPLE FISHING / EXPLOSIONS HEARD IN BACKGROUND VARIOUS OF PARTIALLY SUBMERGED CAR IN WATER
  • Embargoed: 26th April 2022 02:55
  • Keywords: Azovstal Illich Ilyich Mariupol Russian invasion Ukraine damage defence of Mariupol destroyed evacuation residential buildings steel plant war
  • Location: VARIOUS LOCATIONS
  • City: VARIOUS LOCATIONS
  • Country: Ukraine
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe
  • Reuters ID: LVA00N000806042022RP1
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    Wednesday (August 24) marks six months since the start of the war in Ukraine.
    Moscow launched what it called its "special military operation" against Ukraine on February 24. Kyiv and its allies say Ukraine was invaded without provocation.
    The struggle for Mariupol, a once bustling city of 430,000 on the shores of the Sea of Azov left it pulverised and with an estimated population in the tens of thousands.
    Russia seized full control of Mariupol in May when more than 2,400 Ukrainian fighters surrendered at the besieged Azovstal steelworks.
    The United Nations says 90% of the city's buildings were destroyed after Russia used tanks, artillery and air strikes to try to dislodge its defenders.
    (Production: Natasa Bansagi, Kristian Brunse, Nasaybah Hussain, Ben Dangerfield, Paul Warren, Gabriela Boccaccio, Olga Vyshnevska)
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