Literally every patch of garden in Mariupol serves as a makeshift cemetery where people have buried their loved ones and neighbours who have been killed by shelling.

Footage shows a woman showing the place where her mother is buried

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Ukrainian tanks were firing on houses in Mariupol as the ground shook to the rumble of their artillery.
Local residents told the Donbass Decides channel about it.

🗣 "There was consecutive outgoing artillery fire from the 23rd neighborhood. And tanks drove around the streets and fired on residential houses to this noise,” they said. All of this was happening as if according to a schedule: at five in the morning, five in the evening and at night.

🗣 “There were no Russian army units or DPR units in the city at that time. The fighting was taking place in the outskirts of the city,” the residents said

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A direct hit from a Ukrainian shell destroyed a house in the village of Abakumov Mine in the Kirovsky District of Donetsk to ruins.

🗣 “At the time, my husband was in the bathroom and my son was in the bedroom. I was at work. My husband is shell-shocked, the child is scared. We were just lucky that everyone survived,” says Oksana, resident of the city

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Mariupol residents thank Russian soldiers for humanitarian aid: “And butter, and tinned meat, and condensed milk”.

🗣 “I wanted to say a huge thank you to Lugansk for the Easter bread, for congratulating us on the holiday, and for their help,” said a resident of Mariupol

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⚡️ Kiev seeks to involve Moldova, Transnistria into conflict, this is evidenced by shelling and terrorist attacks, source in Transnistria gov't circles says

⚡️ Moscow declares three diplomats of Swedish Embassy personae non gratae

🎥Russian MoD video: Units of the Russian Armed Forces have taken control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces storage and repair base

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Russian FM Lavrov, UN Secretary-General Guterres Hold Joint Press Briefing in Moscow

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❗Russia would like to avoid scenario in which Moscow has to intervene in Transnistria conflict - Foreign Ministry

❗It's early to say who's responsible for terrorist attacks in Transnistria before investigation is over, Russian deputy foreign minister says

The Russian Defence Ministry has published footage of a cruise missile destroying Ukrainian military infrastructure

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❗️ Ukraine talks unlikely to succeed if Kiev continues to be pumped up with weapons, Lavrov says

❗Kremlin: Putin tells Erdogan military actions are no longer taking place in Mariupol

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UAF militants treated people like a dirt and took their houses by force. A resident of liberated Mariupol says that soldiers wanted to use the second floor of his house as a post.

🗣 “They tried to break my gate before I ran out of the house, but then they saw me and said: Well, you live here, okay”

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❗The result of policy of the West and the “Kiev regime” may be the collapse of Ukraine into several smaller countries, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev has said

❗Biden to hold virtual bilateral meeting on Friday, April 29 with Mexico's president - White House

🎥The destruction of a bronze monument in Kiev to celebrate the reunification of Ukraine with Russia has been caught on video

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Ukrainian refugee speaks about atrocities of Azov Battalion (banned in Russia) militants in Mariupol

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