Russian war in Ukraine: breaking news and invasion news

Russia Threatens to ‘Eliminate’ Resistance After Mariupol Ultimatum Rejected , confirming that an ultimatum demanding his surrender had been ignored. In a statement, it said Ukrainian soldiers surrounded by a giant steel plant in the city had been urged to “voluntarily lay down their arms and surrender for their lives”. “However, the nationalist regime in Kyiv, according to the radio intercept, forbade negotiations on surrender,” the ministry said. The Ministry also claimed that according to Ukrainian soldiers who had previously surrendered, “there are up to 400 foreign mercenaries who joined the Ukrainian forces” trapped in the steel plant, including, it said, Europeans and Canadians. “In case of more resistance, everyone will be eliminated,” he said. The Defense Ministry claimed that dozens of military installations in eastern Ukraine had been destroyed in the latest Russian attacks. These included fuel and ammunition depots, the ministry said, around Severodonetsk, Kremmina and other cities in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. He also claimed that the Russian air defense system had shot down 10 Ukrainian UAVs in the Donbas region.