Thousands of residents of the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol have been taken by force to Russia, local authorities have claimed.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia’s siege of the port city of Mariupol was “a terror that will be remembered for centuries to come”.
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