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Ukraine rejects Kremlin’s call to surrender Mariupol amid intense street fighting

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Ukraine rejects Kremlin’s call to surrender Mariupol amid intense street fighting
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An increasingly bloody onslaught in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol has descended into street-by-street guerrilla warfare, as Moscow vies to claim its first strategic victory of the war. Amid bombings on civilian buildings and claims of forced deportations, Russian officials on Sunday called for Ukrainian troops to lay down arms and flee the city during a two-hour window Monday morning or face further assaults and a “military tribunal.” Ukraine’s deputy prime minister rejected the calls to surrender.

“Ukrainian armed units and foreign mercenaries will be able to leave the city without weapons and munitions along a route agreed with Ukraine from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Moscow time,” said the chief of Russia’s National Defense Management Center, Mikhail Mizintsev, according to Moscow’s official news agency, Tass.

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