[In pictures] Mariupol, a devastated city

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The Ruined Theater of Mariupol.

© Anissa El Jabri/RFI

Russia has announced that it wants to “focus its efforts on the liberation of Donbass”, this eastern region, a historic mining basin of the former USSR and Ukraine.

In Mariupol, along the port and especially on the 8 kilometers of the largest factory in the city, the last battles are concentrated.

All the rest of the city is under the control of the separatists.

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