By Jessie Yeung, Tim Lister, Darya Tarasova and Julia Kesaieva, CNN Russia’s Ministry of Defense confirmed Sunday that an ultimatum for Ukrainian soldiers still resisting an unrelenting assault in parts of the devastated southeastern city to surrender had been ignored.
The Russian Defense Ministry released a statement demanding troops in the besieged city of Mariupol surrender as bitter, last-ditch fighting continues.
Fighting has intensified in eastern and southern Ukraine after the sinking of Russian flagship Moskva in the Black Sea. Follow here for live news updates.
Ukrainian forces inside the besieged city of Mariupol on Sunday rejected an offer from Russian military officials to spare their lives if they lay down their arms and surrender.
Russia says it has offered Ukrainian fighters holding out in Mariupol a window to surrender, saying their lives “will be spared” if they lay down their arms.
MOSCOW — The Russian military has told Ukrainian troops in the besieged port of Mariupol that if they lay down their weapons they will be “guaranteed to keep their lives.”
Russia offered to spare the lives of Ukrainian soldiers fighting in Mariupol if they laid down their arms Sunday, as the weeks-long resistance in the besieged
Fighting has intensified in eastern and southern Ukraine after the sinking of Russian flagship Moskva in the Black Sea. Follow here for live news updates.
Russia called on the last Ukrainian troops fighting in Mariupol to lay down arms on Sunday and observe an hourslong cease-fire that it said would allow them to leave the battlefield unscathed, as it c...
Russia has told the last defenders of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol their only chance to survive is to "lay down their arms and surrender." Russia also launched missiles into the capital, Kyiv, and stepped up shelling attacks against the city of Kharkiv.
Moscow set 3am GMT time for Ukrainian fighters to lay down arms in Mariupol; Zelenskiy warns ‘extermination’ of city’s defenders would jeopardise peace talks
Ukrainian forces defied Russian demands to surrender in the key port city of Mariupol by a Sunday deadline, though the situation appeared bleak as forces remained holed up in the
Ukrainian prime minister says strategic city 'has not fallen,' as fighters hold out in massive steel factory; Zelensky says if Russia kills those troops, it will end peace talks
LVIV/KYIV — Ukrainian soldiers resisted a Russian ultimatum to lay down arms on Sunday in the pulverized port of Mariupol, which Moscow said its forces had almost completely seized in
