Ukraine on brink of surving war:Zelenskiy

Ukraine is on the brink of surviving its war with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a video address to the Italian parliament on Tuesday warning Russian forces want to break in to Europe. 

 
Russia is pounding the besieged Ukrainian port of Mariupol into the “ashes of a dead land”, its local council said, Tuesday, describing 2 more huge bombs fell onto the city.  

“There is nothing left there,” Zelenskiy said in the video address.  

The plight of Mariupol, a city of 400,000 before the war, has been the most urgent humanitarian emergency since Russia invaded Ukraine nearly a month ago. Hundreds of thousands of residents are believed to be trapped inside under near constant shelling, with no access to food, water, power or heat. Russia denies targeting civilians.  

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, Reuters reported.  

Russia on Monday demanded the city surrender by dawn , an ultimatum that Kyiv defied. “Our military are defending Mariupol heroically. We did not accept the ultimatum. They offered capitulation under a white flag. This is manipulation, a lie.” Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said, Tuesday.  

Mariupol is the biggest city still held by Ukraine in the Donetsk region, which Russia has demanded Kyiv cede to Moscow-backed separatists. Russian media quoted a separatist official, Tuesday as saying half of Mariupol was now captured.
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