Russia accused of taking thousands from Mariupol to use as ‘hostages’

A woman measures a window before covering it with plastic sheets in a building damaged by a bombing (Vadim Ghirda/AP)

Ukraine has accused Moscow of forcibly taking thousands of civilians from the shattered port city of Mariupol to Russia so they can be used as “hostages” to pressure Kyiv to give up.

Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said that Russian forces have taken 6,000 Mariupol residents to camps against their will.