'This is becoming an artillery battle', says General Lord Dannatt - adding the Russians are reluctant to 'close with the enemy' and prefer to 'shell from a distance', so Ukrainians need 'all the artillery they can get'. KayBurley: 📺Sky 501 and YouTube
Updates from Sky News correspondents Deborah Haynes and Mark Austin in Kyiv and Alex Rossi in Dnipro. Live reporting by Faith RidlerAt least 25 people were wounded during Russian shelling overnight in the Kramatorsk area of Donetsk, according to the head of regional military administration.
General Lord Richard Dannatt, the former head of the British Army, has told Sky News that we could be nearing the final days of the fight for Mariupol. It would appear that they have now resumed the direct attack on the steelworks in order to try and snuff out the remaining part of the resistance there so that they can claim on Monday that they have captured Mariupol.This is a tragedy that is unfolding in front of our eyes. Some of the civilians may get out over the two or three day ceasefire that is being talked about. But for the soldiers in there, I'm afraid the prospect is very grim.
The Institute for the Study of War think-tank claims Russia has now pushed deep inside the plant for the first time, though the extent of this advance"remains unclear"; The UK has announced an additional £45m in funding to help vulnerable people within Ukraine - and those who have fled the war. Ukraine 'makes gains' in southern regions
Fighting is understood to be ongoing at the site, where the remainder of Mariupol's defence forces are holed up alongside an estimated 200 civilians. "Russian troops conducted a number of unsuccessful attacks in eastern Ukraine on 4 May and were unable to make any confirmed advances." The 47-year-old British Army veteran, who has a teenage son in the UK, first spoke to Sky News when he arrived in Ukraine in early March, despite having no links to the country.
Tanks are pictured inside the city, while Ukrainians attempt to cook meals on makeshift grills put together amid the debris of the ongoing war.Tens of thousands of people are thought to remain in Mariupol, despite dozens of attempts to evacuate those trapped in the city to the relative safety of Zaporizhzhia.Sir Andrew Wood, a former British ambassador to Russia, has been speaking to Sky News this morning about the situation on the ground in Ukraine.
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