Ukraine Governor Says Mariupol Is Gone

“As Russia appears poised to capture Mariupol more than six weeks into the invasion, the governor of Ukraine’s Donetsk region said Friday that while Ukrainian troops remain in control of the strategic port city, Mariupol ‘has been wiped off the face of the earth’ by Russian forces,” the Washington Post reports.

Said Pavlo Kyrylenko: “The enemy cannot seize Mariupol. The enemy may seize the land that Mariupol used to stand on, but the city of Mariupol is no more. The city of Mariupol has been wiped off the face of the earth by the Russian Federation, by those who will never be able to restore it.”