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BIZARRE: Mariupol - You Need To See This

Russian-run areas of Ukraine face water, heat and housing woes — and hunts for the disloyal

Four years into its full-scale invasion, Russia controls about 20% of Ukrainian territory, where an estimated 3 million to 5 million people live

The Independent UK

Russia opens rebuilt Mariupol theater more than 3 years after Moscow airstrike killed hundreds there

A historic theater in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol has opened its doors more than three years after it was pummeled in a Russian airstrike that killed hundreds of civilians sheltering inside

The Independent UK

‘Dancing on bones’: Mariupol theatre to reopen with staging of Russian fairytale

Restoration presented as rebuilding, but many see it as part of a broader Russification effort in occupied Ukrainian city

The Guardian - UK

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Film-maker Mstyslav Chernov: ‘I kept seeing Ukraine as a victim of this invasion – I wanted to tell another story’

The documentary-maker on new film 2000 Meters to Andriivka (the Guardian’s No 2 film of 2025), being on the Oscar circuit with 20 Days in Mariupol and filming on the frontline

The Guardian - UK

'Where is mum?': Inside the search for Ukraine's missing

For over a year, Euronews has been in regular contact with Lyudmyla, a grandmother doing everything she can to find her daughter. Hers is one of thousands of Ukrainian families whose loved ones have vanished without a trace since Russia's full-scale invasion.

Euronews

Ukraine's Donbas Refugees Don't Want To Be Sacrificed For Peace

Maryna Tereshchenko still remembers the smell of the apricot trees in her Donbas home town, and clings to the hope that she will one day be able to return to east Ukraine.

International Business Times

Rebuilding In Devastated Mariupol Under Russia's Thumb

Sun-seekers crowded onto the beach in Mariupol in Russian-controlled eastern Ukraine -- a devastated city which Moscow wants to turn into an improbable seaside resort.

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UK sanctions Russian spies who ‘targeted Britain in sustained campaign’

The spies are also blamed for a prolonged campaign of cyberattacks across Europe

The Independent UK

‘The soldiers want you to see what they’re going through’: the heartbreaking follow-up to 20 Days in Mariupol

While Mstyslav Chernov was on the Oscars circuit with his first Ukraine war film, soldiers in his latest – made using bodycams – were dying. He explains why he needed to join them in the trenches

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine’s Mariupol ‘heroes’ returned in prisoner swap as Kyiv halts Moscow’s Sumy advance

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The Independent UK

Ukraine war briefing: Soldiers captured by Russia in Mariupol among those released in prisoner swap

EU extends Russia sanctions but new package blocked by Slovakia. What we know on day 1,220

The Guardian - AU

Rinat Akhmetov: participation in the restoration of Mariupol

The Mariupol.Reborn project, launched with the participation of Rinat Akhmetov, has become an important step in planning the restoration of the city after de-occupation.

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Ukraine war briefing: Deaths in Kharkiv as Russia continues strikes on civilian targets

Latest prisoner exchange includes Mariupol defenders; European Commission unveils 18th round of sanctions. What we know on day 1.204

The Guardian - AU

Retired Russian commander behind strikes on Mariupol that claimed 8,000 Ukrainian lives killed by 'suicide bomber'

Zaur Gurtsiev, 34, who received several medals for participating in Russia’s attacks on Mariupol, was killed alongside another unnamed man in a blast

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Euronews

Surviving Azovstal: Ukrainian soldiers recall Mariupol siege three years on

In May 2022, over 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers were ordered to surrender from the Azovstal steel plant, Ukraine’s last stronghold during the siege of Mariupol. Euronews spoke to the Ukrainian soldiers who defended the encircled city for 86 days and then fought for their lives in Russian prisons.

The Guardian - UK

‘Like a cruel auction’: what Ukrainians think of Trump’s peace talks with Putin

Ukrainians inside the country and abroad express their hopelessness, anger and defiance at negotiations between Washington and Moscow

The Independent UK

In ‘2000 Meters to Andriivka,’ Oscar winner takes viewers back to Ukraine’s frontlines

Two years after “20 Days in Mariupol” debuted in Park City, Utah, Oscar and Pulitzer Prize winner Mstyslav Chernov is back at the Sundance Film Festival with a new dispatch from Ukraine

The Guardian - US

‘Everything is trying to kill you’: harrowing Ukraine film gets standing ovation at Sundance

Oscar-winning film-maker behind 20 Days in Mariupol returns to festival with bruising, on-the-ground look at ongoing conflict

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The Guardian - UK

‘If you hear the siren, go to the shelter’: the wrenching play about the bombing of a theatre in Ukraine

In March 2022, the largest theatre in Mariupol – while in use as a bomb shelter for 1,000 people – was hit by a Russian air strike. A re-enactment based on survivors’ testimonies has been moving audiences to tears

The Independent UK

‘Mom, don’t cry, I’m home:’ Ukrainian refugee family learns that son is alive after almost three years of captivity in Russia

The 25-year-old soldier was captured by Russian forces in May 2022 ‘while defending civilians in Mariupol’ said family

Evening Standard

‘Defenders of Mariupol and Snake Island’ among 189 Ukrainians freed in prisoner swap with Russia

They were reunited with their families in emotional scenes at a hospital in northern Ukraine

TV Tech

IBC Awards International Honour for Excellence to Ukrainian Journalist Mstyslav Chernov

Chernov is a celebrated war correspondent and filmmaker who documented the siege against Russian forces in 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL

Al Jazeera

Russia jails journalist for spreading ‘fake news’ about army in Ukraine war

Sergei Mikhailov was arrested in 2022 after publishing reports about civilian deaths in Bucha and Mariupol.

The Guardian - UK

The Trumpeter review – a vital dispatch from the siege of Mariupol

The last surviving member of a military band shelters from Russian bombardment in Inna Goncharova’s valiant attempt to capture the terrible essence of war

The Independent UK

Russian forces ‘deliberately starved’ Ukrainians in Mariupol, new report claims

Russians targeted civilian food, water and medical facilities as tactic of war before capturing strategic port city in 2022, says report by human rights group Global Rights Compliance

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