'Ashes of a dead land' — Ukrainian plea as more bombs hit besieged Mariupol

LVIV/KYIV — Russia is pounding the besieged Ukrainian port of Mariupol into the"ashes of a dead land", its local council said on Tuesday , describing two more huge bombs that fell on the city that has been sealed off for weeks.

The city council gave no details of casualties or damage from the latest bombing. No independent journalists have been operating inside the Ukrainian-held parts of the city for at least a week, during which Ukraine says Russia struck a theatre, an art school and other public buildings, burying hundreds of women and children sheltering in cellars.

"Our military are defending Mariupol heroically. We did not accept the ultimatum. They offered capitulation under a white flag. This is manipulation, a lie." A part of Mariupol now held by Russian forces, reached by Reuters on Sunday, was an eerie wasteland of windowless charred apartment blocks. Bodies wrapped in blankets lay by a road. A group of men dug graves in a patch of grass.were not merely false, but a sign that president Vladimir Putin might be planning to use such weapons himself.

"With each day of this war, it becomes more obvious what 'denazification' means to them," said Mr Zelenskiy. "The most terrible thing will be the famine that is approaching for some countries," Mr Zelenskiy said in his speech to Italian lawmakers."Ukraine has always been one of the largest food exporters, but how can we sow under the strikes of Russian artillery?"

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