East Ukraine City Mariupol Loses Power After Russian Attack
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Ukraine War: A rebel leader in east Ukraine told Russian state television yesterday that Russian backed forces aimed to besiege Mariupol by the day's end.
Electricity has been cut off in the key south eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol on the Azov Sea following attacks from advancing Russian forces, the head of the region Pavlo Kyrylenko said Tuesday.
"Mariupol and Volnovakha are ours!" Kyrylenko wrote on Facebook. "The two cities are under pressure from the enemy but they are holding on.
"In Mariupol, electricity lines have been cut and the city is without power."
Both cities lie between territory held by Russian-backed separatists and the Crimean peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014, and Russian forces have been working to join the two regions.
