Mr Putin told forces to abandon plans to storm the sprawling Azovstal steel works there, where Ukraine is still resisting the invaders. The Azovstal Iron and Steel Works - a massive, four sq-mile ...

Defenders of the city of Mariupol and of the Azovstal steel plant in southeastern Ukraine are among the 25 prisoners released by Russia in a reciprocal prisoner exchange, the first of 2025. The freed ...