Russia says flagship missile cruise ship Moskva has sunk after fire.
It was unclear when or over what time period a surrender may have occurred or how many forces were still defending Mariupol.
Mariupol has been the scene of some of the war's worst suffering. Dwindling numbers of Ukrainian defenders are holding out against a Russian siege that has trapped well over 100,000 civilians in desperate need of food, water and heating. Moscow-backed separatists have been battling Ukraine in the Donbas since 2014, the same year Russia seized Crimea. Russia has recognized the independence of the rebel regions in the Donbas, though the move has been met with widespread condemnation from the West.Maksym Marchenko, governor of the Odesa region, which sits across the Black Sea to the northwest of Sevastopol, said the Ukrainians struck the guided-missile cruiser with two Neptune missiles and caused "serious damage.
A Ukrainian serviceman looks on as workers exhume bodies from a mass grave in Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, on Thursday.
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