DIRECT. War in Ukraine: “inhuman” situation in Mariupol, which the Russians say they control

The situation in the strategic port of Mariupol is “inhuman”, declared last night the Ukrainian president, calling on the West to “immediately” provide the heavy weapons he has been demanding for several weeks, while Russia claims to control almost all of the city and launches a new appeal to its last defenders to lay down their arms. “The situation in Mariupol remains as serious as it can get. Simply inhuman,” Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video message. “That’s what the Russian Federation did. Did it deliberately. (…) Russia is deliberately trying to destroy anyone in Mariupol’, in southeastern Ukraine.