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    Russia claims Mariupol amid fresh evidence its troops killed civilians

    by Nabih Bulos, Jaweed Kaleem and Kurtis Lee, Los Angeles Times Apr 21, 2022 5 minutes
    This aerial view shows a destroyed residential area in the village of Moshchun, northwest of Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 20, 2022, as more than 5 million Ukrainians have now fled their country following the Russian invasion, the United Nations says.

    SVIATOHIRSK, Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed victory in the battle for the southern Ukrainian port of Mariupol on Thursday as newly released satellite images from just outside the city revealed an apparent burial site where a local official said Russian troops were depositing dead civilians.

    Ukrainian leaders refused to surrender the battered city, a key target in Russia’s war strategy. But the end appeared imminent, with the city’s last holdouts sheltering in a sprawling steel mill.

    Putin announced in a televised meeting with his defense minister that he had ordered his forces not to attack the Azovstal steel plant but to blockade the compound so tightly that “not even a fly comes through.”

    Those trapped include soldiers, children and the elderly, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told a French television station Thursday.

    “It is not more like a war, but a

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