Ukraine: What happened today, Saturday, April 23?

Amid the attacks on Azovstal in Mariupol, Ukrainian officials had said they were trying again on Saturday to evacuate women, children and older adults from Mariupol after many previous attempts failed

A Ukrainian soldier sits on tyres next to a building destroyed by Russian bombing in Chernihiv. Picture: AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti

Russian forces attacked a steel plant in the shattered Ukrainian port city of Mariupol on Saturday. 

The offensive is an apparent bid to eliminate the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the strategic city the Kremlin claims its military has otherwise seized.