Vladimir Putin Claims Victory Over a Defiant Mariupol
An injured man following a Russian strike on a factory in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine.
Photographer: Petros Giannakouris/AP Photo
This is a special daily brief on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, one of the most urgent security crises in Europe since World War II.
President Vladimir Putin declared that Russia had seized the Ukrainian port of Mariupol after a long-running siege, even as his defense minister said more than 2,000 opposing troops remain holed up in an industrial complex in the eastern party of the city.