'Deliberately, for seven days, they have been destroying the city's critical life-support infrastructure,' council leaders in Mariupol said. 'We have no light, water or heat again.'
• A second round of talks between Russia and Ukraine is expected laterIn Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, the central rail station was rocked by an explosion on Wednesday evening as thousands of civilians were trying to flee.
A major assault on the capital was believed imminent but appears to have been delayed after a Russian convoy - pictured on Monday and estimated at 40 miles long - apparently ground to a virtual standstill. Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the invaders would be"destroyed" wherever they go, and compared them to the"disease" of the coronavirus pandemic.
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