Ukrainian prisoners from the besieged city of Mariupol return home | World | News

[ad_1] As Russia continued its brutal missile strikes against civilians, 60 Ukrainian soldiers imprisoned by Putin’s forces earlier this year have been returned to their families on the nation’s Armed Forces Day. Pictures of the relieved soldiers show them holding Ukrainian flags and rejoicing at being able to see their families after months of being held captive by Russian forces. More than half of the soldiers were captured in May by the Russians as they…

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Russia issues new ultimatum for surrender of Mariupol

[ad_1] Ukraine said Russian forces in their new offensive had captured the town of Kreminna, an administrative centre of 18,000 people in Luhansk, one of the two Donbas provinces, after a ferocious night of artillery bombardment along a 482-kilometre front line in the east. Driven back by Ukrainian forces in March from an assault on Kyiv in the north, Russia has instead poured troops into the east for the launch of what its foreign minister,…

"Russia issues new ultimatum for surrender of Mariupol"