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Russian tanks fired on at least one apartment building in the south-eastern city of Mariupol on Friday, sparking fires and sending thick, dark smoke rising into the sky.
It wasn’t possible to tell whether they’d first received fire from the targeted locations.
The encircled city of 446,000 people has suffered some of the greatest misery from Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Unceasing barrages have thwarted repeated attempts to bring in food and water, evacuate trapped civilians and to bury all of the dead.
The atmosphere on the streets remained tense on Friday as rescue workers and soldiers operated with the sound of firing nearby.
In a local hospital, conditions were deteriorating, with electricity reserved for operating tables.
Doctors operated on a woman with several injuries, including in her throat, and removed bloodied shrapnel.
She shrieked in pain as they plugged a wound in her arm.
Meanwhile, people with nowhere else to go lined the hallways.
Among them Anastasiya Erashova, who wept and trembled as she held her sleeping child.
Shelling had just killed her other child, as well as her brother’s child, she said, her scalp still crusted with blood.
She said she’d been at her brother’s house, underground with women and children, when a mortar struck and they became trapped.
Ukraine’s military said Saturday that Russian forces had captured Mariupol’s eastern outskirts, tightening the armed squeeze on the strategic port.
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