Ukraine rejects demands from Moscow to surrender the strategically important port city of Mariupol, as Russian forces continue relentless attacks aimed at forcing the city into submission.
Mariupol has been subjected to weeks of shelling and grisly urban warfare as Russian forces have struggled to take over the city.Crimea
Civilians trapped in Mariupol, Ukraine, are evacuated in groups under the control of pro-Russian separatists March 20, 2022.industrial center and home to one of Ukraine’s biggest ports. If Russia takes control, it would allow Moscow to further choke Ukraine's resources. "It is quite possible that once Mariupol falls, that will release Russian forces from the two republics to either push west to Odesa or indeed push north in an effort to threaten the rear of the Ukrainian forces operating in the Donbass, which would pose the Ukrainian high command with a difficult choice about whether it continued to fight there or whether it seeks to withdraw," he said.
"The sad fact is when people sheltering in the theater in Mariupol write the word 'children' on either side of the building in letters big enough to be seen by Russian surveillance assets, they are actually making the building a target instead of protecting it," he said.
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