The fight to take Mariupol has intensified while more than 1,000 civilians and Ukrainian troops are reportedly taking shelter at the Azovstal Steel mill in the Sea of Azov port city of Mariupol ...

A Mariupol official said Wednesday that the Russian military is attempting to “storm again and again” a steel factory in the city where officials have said up to 1,000 civilians are taking cover.

Ukrainian forces at the Azovstal steel factory in Mariupol said Tuesday that Russia’s military is now storming the complex. The move comes almost two weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin ...

Long before Mariupol’s Azovstal Iron and Steel Works became a key battleground in Ukraine, it played a dominant role in the port city’s economy. As one of the largest metallurgical factories ...

A huge Soviet-era steel mill is where the last Ukrainian defenders of Mariupol have taken refuge as Russia’s battle to take full control of the city appeared to be entering its final stages.

The steel-plant evacuation, if successful, would represent rare progress in easing the human cost of the almost 10-week war, which has caused particular suffering in Mariupol.

Russian forces have bombarded the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine, for days. Local officials said that more than 2,000 civilians are sheltering at the site with the last of Ukraine’s ...

In the past, Ukrainian officials have accused Moscow’s troops of forcibly relocating civilians from areas they have captured to Russia; Moscow has said the people wanted to go to Russia. Zelenskyy ...

Explosions rumbled and smoke rose this week from a steel making district in besieged Mariupol where dwindling Ukrainian forces are holed up as Russia tries to take full control of its biggest city ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The fate of hundreds of Ukrainian fighters who surrendered after holding out against punishing attacks on Mariupol's steel factory hung in the balance Thursday, amid ...

A view shows a plant of Azovstal Iron and Steel Works company behind damaged buildings in Mariupol, Ukraine. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko 2022-04-19T09:11:09Z ...

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Russia resumed pulverizing the Mariupol steel mill that has become the last stronghold of resistance in the bombed-out city, Ukrainian fighters said Monday, after a ...