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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said Russia’s siege of the port city of Mariupol was “a terror that will be remembered for centuries to come”, Reuters reports.
In his late night broadcast, Zelenskiy said the siege of Mariupol would “go down in history of responsibility for war crimes”.