Eduard Basurin, press secretary of the DPR military command, said that Ukrainian troops defending Mariupol must be encircled in the Azovstal plant and attacked with chemical weapons
Russian occupying troops in Mariupol are collecting the bodies of civilians in an underground passage in the Sadky neighbourhood on the outskirts of the city in order to destroy them in a crematorium later
The Russian military, who seized the Chornobyl nuclear power plant and other facilities in the exclusion zone, moved in two columns towards the Ukrainian border with Belarus