Officials believe 2,300 people have died in the Mariupol siege and up to 1,000 could still be trapped in wreckage. Rescuers' attempts to pull people from rubble are ongoing
A resident carries a teddy bear out of his apartment after shelling by Russian troops
- 20:14, 20 Mar 2022
Russian forces brutally bombed a school where 400 women, children and elderly were sheltering in stricken Mariupol today.
The art school was reduced to rubble and rescuers are trying to pull out people trapped under the debris- as the community is still trying to rescue victims of the earlier theatre bombing.
So far only 130 people out of more than 1,000 feared trapped under the Mariupol theatre last Wednesday have been rescued.
Ukraine officials believe 2,300 people have died in the Mariupol siege and those remaining are starving and suffering a lack of water.
There was no news tonight on the fate of those trapped in the school bombing.
And there is increasing alarm over the fate of those locals who manage to escape the hell of Mariupol.
Terrifying footage has emerged apparently showing Russia firing deadly thermobaric rockets
The city council revealed Russian troops are kidnapping civilians, possibly as many as 5,000 so far, and processing them into Russia, confiscating their passports.
Officials revealed in a statement: "Over the past week, several thousand Mariupol residents were deported onto the Russian territory.”
Russian news agencies have said buses have carried several hundred people Moscow calls refugees from Mariupol to Russia in recent days.
Meanwhile in the eastern city of Kharkiv, officials say at least five civilians have been killed in renewed Russian shelling.
In the capital Kyiv a large plume of smoke rose above the capital after enormous explosions were - possibly the interception of an incoming missile by ground defence systems.
Air raid sirens sounded across Ukrainian cities on Sunday and Russia confirmed cruise missiles were launched from ships in the Black Sea and Caspian Sea, as well as hypersonic missiles from Crimean airspace.
The hypersonic missiles travel faster than five times the speed of sound and their speed, manoeuvrability and altitude make them difficult to track and intercept.
They were deployed by Russia for the first time in Ukraine on Saturday. Russia's Interfax news agency reported, in a strike which Moscow said destroyed a large underground depot for missiles and aircraft ammunition.
Civilians trapped in Mariupol city under Russian attacks, are evacuated in groups under the control of pro-Russian separatists
A Daily Mirror team which visited Delyatyn, where the missile hit a Soviet-era ammo dump, saw no evidence of the strike on Friday.
But today Russia said it had fired a second hypersonic Kinzhal missile on “military targets.”
Russia’s ministry of defence said: “A Kinzhal attack on a fuel and lubricants base from which fuel for Ukrainian armoured vehicles was launched from airspace over Crimea.”
A spokesperson for the Ukrainian Air Force Command confirmed the Friday attack in the western Ivano-Frankivsk region.
And all over the country Ukraine’s security service and troops were hunting down Russian saboteurs and spies trying to infiltrate society and spark mayhem or call in airstrikes.
Ukraine’s border guards seized two Russian spies in Kharkiv who had apparently been sent on a sabotage mission.
Brit Douglas Homer, 83, who fled Ukraine
Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said seven humanitarian corridors would open on Sunday to enable civilians to leave frontline areas. Ukraine has so far evacuated a total of 190,000 people.
According to Ukraine official figures Russia’s military has lost almost 15,000 troops in 25 days of fierce fighting and failing to gain a single city during the invasion. It also claims Moscow has lost 96 warplanes - plus well-over 400 tanks.
Today Moscow lost another top commander, Black Sea Captain Andrey Paliy, 51- the first senior Russian navy officer killed. He was shot dead in fighting and it is believed he was among a number of Russian marines trying to storm Mariupol.
Paliy was born in Kyiv but in 1993 refused to take the Ukrainian military oath and joined the Russian forces instead.
So far Russia has seen five of its generals killed in the 25 day invasion.
Desperate Moscow leaders have signed off a decree to send adolescents to war after defence minister Sergei Shoigu ordered it.
Both he and Putin are preparing to allow 17-18 year-olds from a Russian youth movement to be called up to the frontline to join the fighting.
And Russian troops frustrated by their lack of progress are increasingly resorting to single acts of ruthless violence against civilian Ukrainians.
In Luhansk officials claimed a Russian tank opened fire on a care home killing 56.
In the community of Trostyanets, in the Sumy region Russian troops hurled a grenade at passers-by, killing two men, local prosecutors reported.
Not far away in the same region Russian soldiers shot dead a family delivering bread by car, according to Sumy military-civil administration chief Dmitry Zhyvytskyi.
Impoverished locals in the Krasnopil community refused to accept offers of food and aid from Russian forces.
Zhyvytskyi added: “I personally talked to a wounded woman at a hospital and the Russian military stitched her with a machine gun.”
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