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2023-05-20 15:39:46
On May 20, 2022, after capturing the ports of Berdiansk and Kherson, Russian forces attacked Mariupol. The city of 44,000 inhabitants located on the shores of the Azov Sea was besieged for many weeks before the final offensive, described by the European Union as a “war crime”. More than 20,000 people are said to have died in the fighting, but the real toll is unknown.
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