Russian forces are pounding the port city of Mariupol, shelling its downtown as residents hide.
in Mariupol during the siege, according the mayor's office, and the shelling has even interrupted efforts to bury the dead in mass graves.The Ukrainian government said Saturday that the Sultan Suleiman Mosque was hit, but an unverified Instagram post by a man claiming to be the mosque association’s president said the building was spared when a bomb fell about 750 yards away. About 80 residents, including children, were reportedly hiding inside.
“We came to my brother’s , all of us together. The women and children went underground, and then some mortar struck that building," she said."We were trapped underground, and two children died. No one was able to save them.” Zelenskyy encouraged his people to keep up their resistance, which many analysts said has prevented the rapid military victory the Kremlin likely expected.“The fact that the whole Ukrainian people resist these invaders has already gone down in history, but we do not have the right to let up our defense, no matter how difficult it may be,” he said. Later Saturday, Zelenskyy reported that 1,300 Ukrainian soldiers had died since the Russian invasion began Feb. 24.
Ukraine's military and volunteer forces have been preparing for an all-out assault. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Thursday that about 2 million people, half the metropolitan area's inhabitants, had left and that “every street, every house … is being fortified.”
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