Drone footage on Monday showed the extent of damage in Mariupol’s Primorskyi district on Monday, April 18 after weeks under siege.Russia claimed on Saturday, April 16 its forces had almost completely seized the port town, but the Ukrainian defense minister on Monday disputed this claim saying the situation was “extremely” difficult but Mariupol was not under full Russian control.Capturing Mariupol, the main port in the Donbas region, would be a strategic prize for Russia, connecting territory held by pro-Russian separatists in the east with the Crimea region that Moscow annexed in 2014.
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