Russia resumed its assault on the last Ukrainian defenders holed up in a giant steel works in Mariupol on Saturday, days after Moscow declared victory in the southern city and said its forces did not need to take the plant.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the country's army was not ready to try break through the siege of the port city by force. But he told an evening news conference that Kyiv had every right to do so.
The death toll could not be independently verified. The last big strike on or near Odesa was in early April. Russian General Rustam Minnekayev on Friday said Moscow wanted control of the whole of southern Ukraine, comments Ukraine said indicated Russia had wider goals than its declared aim of demilitarizing and "denazifying" the country. Kyiv and the West call the invasion an unjustified war of aggression.
One woman holding a young child said food was running out, while an unnamed boy in the video said he was desperate to get out after two months in the bunker.
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