Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky says the siege of Mariupol will go down in history as a war crime.
ZELENSKY SAYS MARIUPOL SIEGE WAR CRIME"To do such a thing to a peaceful city, what the occupiers have done, this is a terror that will be remembered even in the next century," he says. He adds Russian shelling is blocking efforts to deliver humanitarian supplies to Ukrainian cities.In the encircled northern city of Chernigiv, the mayor says dozens of civilians have been killed by "indiscriminate artillery shelling", and that a hospital has been hit.
"We will return to the city, rebuild the enterprise and revive it," Azovstal's director general Enver Tskitishvili writes on messaging app Telegram, without specifying the extent of the damage.Ukraine calls on China to join the West in condemning "Russian barbarism", after the US warned Beijing of consequences if it backed Moscow's attack on the country.
Hypersonic missiles travel faster than the speed of sound and can manoeuvre mid-flight, making them hard to track and intercept. Dozens of soldiers are thought to have been killed after Friday's strike on the barracks, witnesses tell AFP as rescue operations continue. An official toll has not yet been given.Russia says its forces have broken through the defences of the besieged southern port of Mariupol and are now inside the war-torn city.