Civilians head for safety after being rescued from Mariupol steel mill

Natalia Pototska, 43, cries as her grandson Matviy looks on in a car at a centre for displaced people in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Monday May 2 2022 (Evgeniy Maloletka/AP)

Russia has resumed pulverising the Mariupol steel mill that has become the last stronghold of resistance in the bombed-out city, Ukrainian fighters said.

The bombardment comes after a brief weekend ceasefire allowed the first evacuation of civilians from the plant.