Ukraine vows to ‘fight absolutely to the end’ in Mariupol

The fall of Mariupol, which has been reduced to rubble in a seven-week siege, would give Moscow its biggest victory of the war.

A view inside the Mariupol theater damaged during fighting in Mariupol. Picture: AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov

Ukraine has vowed to “fight absolutely to the end” in Mariupol where the port’s last-known pocket of resistance is holed up in a sprawling steel plant laced with tunnels.

Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Ukrainians would keep fighting in the ruined city, as Russian missiles and rockets also battered other parts of the country.