Ukraine war: We will rebuild, vows mayor of flattened Mariupol
The key city is occupied by Russia – but the exiled Ukrainian mayor is still making plans. …
For months, following Russia’s invasion in February, a hard core of defenders held out, mostly in tunnels inside the grim, dystopian, Soviet-era Azovstal Iron and Steel Works, while much of the city around them was reduced to rubble. At least 20,000 people are estimated to have been killed in the siege.