See Mariupol’s Azovstal steel-mill fortress in peacetime, and then after nearly two months of war.

The before-and-after footage shows the scale of destruction that Mariupol has suffered after nearly two months of near constant bombardment by Russian artillery, mortars and airstrikes. Ukrainian fighters and hundreds of civilians have hunkered down over the course of the siege, and an unknown number remain in the factory’s labyrinth of underground rooms and passages, with diminishing supplies inside. Read more

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