The capture of Mariupol would make it the biggest city to be taken by Moscow's forces and would give the Kremlin a badly needed victory. The steel plant had housed hundreds of its fighters who had held out for months under relentless bombardment in the last bastion of resistance in the devastated city.
the psychological impact that would be to see mariupol fall after such valient fighting. weinvestigators on the ground. this is an entirely different circumstance if russians control it. does the global community get involved? do satellite images get involved? what does it look like? we just don t know at this point. in terms of satellite imagery, even commercially available satellite imagery from groups from organizations such as maxr did show in the case of bucha quite physically there were bodies lying of the ground and so, those have not come to light yet from mariupol, we do have some satellite images from the city showing just the extent of the devastation there but it s we haven t yet seen that granular level. the other thing of course is what this means for the
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we know 400 people were inside an art school. no word yet on casualties, but it comes as rescue teams try and pull people out of the rubble at a theatre. hundreds are thought to be trapped there after a theatre housing more than 1,000 was struck. than 1,000 was struck a couple of days ago, and what is making their efforts all the more difficult is fighting breaking out in the streets. there are now russian forces in the heart of mariupol. we understand, suggesting, as feared by the west, that the level of ukrainian resistance might be starting to falter under intense pressure. sustained bombardment, sustained siege for more than two weeks, where more than coming up to 2,500 people are known to have died. the figure is thought to be higher, but nevertheless it has come at a cost for the russians. they have sustained unexpected losses, and the thought from military experts is should mariupol fall, yes, it s strategically significant, it gives the russians a land corridor across the south
of days ago, and what is making their efforts all the more difficult is fighting breaking out in the streets. there are now russian forces in the heart of mariupol, we understand, suggesting, as feared by the west, that the level of ukrainian resistance might be starting to falter under intense pressure. sustained bombardment, sustained siege for more than two weeks, where coming up to 2,500 people are known to have died. the figure is thought to be higher, but nevertheless it has come at a cost for the russians. they have sustained unexpected losses, and the thought from military experts is should mariupol fall, yes, it s strategically significant, it gives the russians a land corridor across the south east of ukraine, but it also means that the russians priority is to now regroup instead of launch new attacks because of