Ukrainian forces besieged in Mariupol have rejected Russia’s demands to surrender and are still resisting an unrelenting assault on the southeastern port city, top Ukrainian officials said on Sunday.
Highlights
- NEW: Ukraine’s prime minister says “not one big city in Ukraine has fallen” NEW: He says more than 900 cities, towns and villages have been freed from Russian occupation since Moscow took control.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defense called on the Ukrainian soldiers still in Mariupol to surrender by 1 p.m.
- local time Sunday.
- An estimated 100,000 people still remain in the southeastern port city, which has been under Russian control since March 1.
- The Russian ministry later confirmed the ultimatum had been ignored by Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and a local adviser to the mayor also rejected the Russian demands to surrender.