The Russian leader tours parts of the port city that saw some of his army's fiercest attacks.
in London and Kyiv
Mariupol's Ukrainian mayor in exile Vadym Boychenko told the BBC that Mariupol was "personal" to Mr Putin because of what had happened there. Further on, on the right and not shown in the footage, is Mariupol's Maternity Hospital Number Three, which was bombed in a notorious incident last March,Pictures of heavily-pregnant Mariana Vishegirskaya, her face bloodied, descending rubble-strewn steps was widely shared amid outrage at the attack. She survived and gave birth the following day. Another pregnant woman was among the victims.
Nevsky is new district comprising a dozen apartment blocks in the west of the city. It is named after the River Neva, on which President Vladimir Putin's home city of St Petersburg stands.Mariupol residents have been telling the BBC that new buildings are going up and some of those damaged by the Russian military are being removed.
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