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    Hundreds feared dead in Ukrainian port city under siege from Russian forces

    by Nabih Bulos and David Pierson, Los Angeles Times Mar 03, 2022 4 minutes
    Soldiers check vehicles at a checkpoint on a main road entering the city, on the 7th day of the Russian invasion, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022.

    KYIV, Ukraine — Hundreds were feared dead in the embattled Ukrainian port city of Mariupol on Thursday after more than a day of Russian bombardment left buildings in ruins and civilians cowering in terror.

    Russian forces unleashed a barrage of artillery fire, rockets and air attacks Wednesday on the strategic city of some 430,000 people in southeastern Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov near the Russian border, news reports said. The bombardment came as Kherson, another port on the Dnieper River, became the first major city to fall in the 8-day-old conflict, giving Russia an important foothold in the south.

    “We cannot count the number of victims there, but we believe at least hundreds of people are dead,” Mariupol’s deputy mayor, Serhiy Orlov, told

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