Ukraine-Russia war live – Starving families eat stray dogs & drink radiator water as animals feast on Mariupol corpses

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DESPERATE residents trapped in a destroyed Ukrainian city have resorted to drinking radiator water & eating stray DOGS, a report claims.

Mariupol has been under intense attack from Russia for the last three weeks with Ukrainian resistance fighters pushing back against Putin’s forces.

However, the situation for residents trapped by ongoing fighting has become unbearable, according to a new report from the FT.

Reporter Guy Chanzan says the situation has gotten so bad that people are resorting to eating dogs and drinking water from any source they can find – because streams have been contaminated by rotten corpses.

Chazan wrote: “In the besieged city of Mariupol, scene of the heaviest fighting in Russia’s three-week war on Ukraine, people are now so hungry they are killing stray dogs for food.

The reporter also wrote how “witnesses depicted post-apocalyptic scenes of stray dogs eating the remains of bombing victims who lay unburied on the street”.

He added: “Russia’s medieval-style siege of Mariupol also left its residents facing an acute shortage of both food and water.

“With no gas, they cook food on campfires made from broken furniture in the courtyards of their houses.”

Mariupol, which has been the scene of some of the country’s most intense fighting, has seen 2,400 residents of the city killed since Russia launched its invasion.

Some 400,000 people have also been left displaced by Russia’s brutal advance.

Follow our Russia-Ukraine live blog below for up-to-the-minute updates…

  • Lomachenko refuses to leave Ukrainian front line

    Heroic boxing star Vasyl Lomachenko has decided to keep fighting on the Ukrainian front line after turning down a world title bout to face George Kambosos Jr.

    The three-weight world champion, 34, is one of a number of Ukrainian sporting icons that have joined the fight to defend their nation following Russia’s invasion.

    And the two-time Olympic gold medallist is refusing to leave the country as he has elected to keep fighting on the battlefield instead of in the boxing ring.

    It was reported last week how Lomachenko’s team were looking to pull him out of Ukraine so he can prepare for a showdown against unbeaten Australian ace Kambosos Jr in June.

    But the lightweight contest will have to wait with Kambosos Jr tweeting Lomachenko to ‘stay safe’ as he paid his respect to his rival.

  • UN calls for an end to ‘absurd war’

    UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday urged an end to the “absurd war” started by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine one month ago.

    Guterres warned the conflict is “going nowhere, fast” and that the Ukrainian people are “enduring a living hell.”

    He said during a press conference: “Continuing the war in Ukraine is morally unacceptable, politically indefensible & militarily nonsensical.”

  • Labour calls on Government to ramp up sanctions

    Sir Keir Starmer has called on the Government to “ramp up” sanctions on Russia to “cripple” its ability to function as a country.

    The Labour leader said Western powers needed to continue their support for Ukraine, including supplying more military equipment, while avoiding direct conflict with Russia.

    “Everybody understands why every step has to be taken to prevent this escalating into a direct Nato on Russia conflict,” he told BBC Radio 4’s The World At One.

    “That is why we need to provide more military support, that’s why sanctions have to be ramped up again further and faster and that’s why we need to have a stronger, more compassionate humanitarian response.

    “What we need to do is to continue to provide that level of support, continue to support the Ukrainians, and ramp up those sanctions which need to go beyond just isolating Russia. They have to cripple its ability to function.”

  • Help those fleeing conflict with The Sun’s Ukraine Fund

    PICTURES of women and children fleeing the horror of Ukraine’s devastated towns and cities have moved Sun readers to tears.

    Many of you want to help the five million caught in the chaos — and now you can, by donating to The Sun’s Ukraine Fund.

    Give as little as £3 or as much as you can afford and every penny will be donated to the Red Cross on the ground helping women, children, the old, the infirm and the wounded.

    Donate here to help The Sun’s fund

    Or text to 70141 from UK mobiles

    £3 — text SUN£3
    £5 — text SUN£5
    £10 — text SUN£10

    Texts cost your chosen donation amount (e.g. £5) +1 standard message (we receive 100%). For full T&Cs visit redcross.org.uk/mobile

    The Ukraine Crisis Appeal will support people in areas currently affected and those potentially affected in the future by the crisis.

    In the unlikely event that the British Red Cross raise more money than can be reasonably and efficiently spent, any surplus funds will be used to help them prepare for and respond to other humanitarian disasters anywhere in the world.

    For more information visit https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/disaster-fund

  • Follow the latest news on Ukraine with these must-read stories from The Sun

  • At least 117 children killed in invasion

    Since the start of Russia’s invasion at least 117 children have been killed and more than 155 others injured in the country.

    These figures have been reported by the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine.

    It says most of the fatalities have been reported in or around the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.

    Prosecutors also say they have recorded 548 instances where schools and other educational facilities were hit by missiles, 72 of which they say were “completely destroyed”.

  • Unexploded missile sits in Ukrainian families’ kitchen

    AN unexploded Russian missile got lodged in the kitchen of a Ukrainian family’s home after smashing through the roof.

    Footage shows the huge rocket wedged in the corner of the room after miraculously only causing damage to the ceiling and sink at a house in the besieged city of Kharkiv.

    The clip, shared on TikTok with almost 3million views, shows someone walking into the house where the giant missile can be seen stuck in the unit.

    Aside from a little debris on the floor where the missile smashed through the ceiling, there appears to be no other damage to the home as it, fortunately, failed to explode.

    A further video shared by @pd05763 appears to show members of a Ukrainian bomb disposal unit inspecting the rocket as one of them moves it with his hand.

    Ukraine’s government previously shared a picture of the unexploded missile, tweeting: “Imagine, it was Sunday morning and you were sleeping with your kids,” as it called again for NATO to impose a no-fly zone over the country.

  • Putin critic sent to penal colony for 9 years

    POISONED Putin critic Alexei Navalny was handed nine years in a penal colony today after being found guilty of “cooked up” fraud charges.

    The brave Kremlin nemesis – who is already behind bars and banned from standing in elections – was convicted of large-scale embezzlement and contempt after a trial widely seen as a sham.

    Navalny, 45, defiantly quoted TV crime drama The Wire after the sentence was handed down by a regime-friendly judge.

    He said on Twitter: “Nine years. Well, as the characters of my favorite TV series The Wire used to say: ‘You only do two days. That’s the day you go in and the day you come out.

    “I even had a T-shirt with this slogan, but the prison authorities confiscated it.”

    He also repeated his call for Russians to take action saying: “Don’t be idle. This toad sitting on an oil pipe will not overthrow itself.”

  • Chelsea in crisis

    The Government could yet seize Chelsea, but even if a deal is agreed there would be questions around the proceeds.

    Government officials have already said Abramovich would not receive a penny for the sale given his links to Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin and the alleged origins of his wealth.

    The sanctions saw Abramovich’s London property portfolio – worth an estimated £200 million – seized, preventing him from accessing his homes.

    All his assets including the clubs bank cards were also frozen – Chelsea have also been banned from taking part in the summer transfer window.

    Chelsea are now haemorrhaging millions of pounds per week on wages and cannot earn money.

  • Saudi bid for Chelsea likely to be rejected by Rishi Sunak

    Chelsea could yet end up in administration as the highest remaining bid from outside the US and Europe is likely to be from the Saudi Media Group.

    The Saudis have reportedly tabled a whopping £2.66bn offer – but Chancellor Rishi Sunak, who is overseeing the process – is likely to turn it down.

    This is in light of the ferocious backlash following the takeover of Newcastle United by an investment fund linked to nation’s rulers.

  • Chelsea face administration & points deduction as Abramovich ‘refuses bids’

    CHELSEA owner Roman Abramovich could plunge his crisis-gripped club into administration – if he ‘refuses’ to flog it to a country that has sanctioned Russian oligarchs, it has been claimed.

    The billionaire could influence the club’s sale despite having had all his assets seized by the British Government, according to The Mail on Sunday.

    If Chelsea were forced into administration it would see them hit with a nine-point deduction, putting their top four and Champions League hopes in jeopardy.

    Abramovich – who has owned Chelsea since 2003 – has hired The Raine Group to flog the West London club.

    He reportedly has the power to veto bids from potential buyers in the United States and Britain, the sources claimed.

  • Abramovich’s yacht blocked by anti war protesters

    UKRAINIANS have tried to stop Roman Abramovich’s super yacht from docking in Turkey in an anti-war protest.

    The group were seen in a dinghy carrying their country’s yellow and blue flag with the words ‘No War’ written on it.

    It’s not clear if Abramovich himself was on the 460-foot yacht My Solaris when it docked in Bodrum on Monday afternoon.

    The Chelsea owner, worth a cool £10bn, was sanctioned by the UK government as part of attempts to crackdown on wealthy Russians with assets in the UK

    The protesters were a team of young yachtsmen from the Black Sea city of Odessa, Nexta TV reports.

    Their action ended when local police arrived and the yacht was able to dock in the port at the Turkish yacht.

  • ‘Glory to Ukraine’

    Air raid sirens wail across the city several times each day.

    Many shops, restaurants and bars are still open, albeit operating under curfew.

    Many premises are keen to show patriotism and support for those at the front line.

    A sign at the Kebab House says: “Today for defenders of Ukraine we are cooking free doner kebabs. Glory to Ukraine.”

    Some 200,000 refugees are crammed into every available space in the city, from restaurant floors, to sports stadiums and church crypts.

  • How Lviv’s citizens are preparing

    Armed soldiers are on the streets in increasing numbers and citizens are mobilising.

    In a hipster-style arts venue, Taras Maselko, 36, from Pravda Brewery, shows me the 2,000 petrol bombs made for Kurko’s fighters.

    Taras told me: “Normally we have festivals here and there’s a kindergarten, now we’re making weapons of war.

    “Molotov cocktails can stop a tank if you hit them in the right place.”

    In a workshop nearby, workers are making T-shirts bearing the legend: “Russian military ship go f*** yourself.”

    The phrase — uttered by a Ukrainian soldier on a Black Sea island when asked to surrender by the Russian Navy — is a popular slogan.

  • War comes to Lviv

    Until last week this western Ukrainian city had been unscathed.

    That changed on Friday when a barrage of six Russian cruise missiles were fired at Lviv from the Black Sea.

    Two were intercepted but the others slammed into a maintenance site near the Lviv airport used to repair Ukraine’s MiG fighter jets.

    Earlier last week, Russian missiles struck a training base to the west of Lviv, killing 35 and wounding dozens.

    It served notice to Lviv’s 700,000-population that the war could be heading this way.

    Since then, queues have grown longer at the city’s gun shop.

    Many here are also on the lookout for Russian agents.

  • Pro-Stalin general was involved in Litvinenko murder

    In 2006 it was claimed that Bortnikov was involved in the operation to assassinate Alexander Litvinenko.

    Former KGB spy Litvinenko had defected to the UK, where he worked to expose the corrupt practices of the Kremlin before he was poisoned with polonium.

    Bortnikov has also been criticised for being too pro-Stalin.

    He came under fire in 2017 from more than 30 academics who claimed that he was legitimising the mass purges carried out under Joseph Stalin known as the Great Terror.

    At the time, he said archives show that “a significant part” of the criminal cases of those killed “had an objective side to them”.

    He said he did not want to “whitewash anyone” but pointed to “links of coup plotters to foreign security agencies”.

  • Who is Alexander Bortnikov?

    Alexander Bortnikov  is the current director of Russia’s FSB – making him one of the most powerful people in Russia and as an influential member of Putin’s inner circle.

    Like Putin, he is a former officer of the KGB and first met Putin while the pair were stationed together in Leningrad – now Saint Petersburg – in the 1970s.

    Since stepping into the might role in 2008, the terrifying spymaster is said to have turned the FSB into the “punishing sword” of Putin’s regime.

    The organisation is both the brain and the heart of Putin’s government and behaves like a “state within the state”, according to the Dossier Center.

    Not long after Putin was appointed acting president, Bortnikov was first made head of Russia’s Economic Security Service, wielding huge power and leverage.

    He is also one of a small handful of people in Russia to earn the rank of Army General.

  • Who could replace Putin if Russian leader is taken out?

    FROM allegedly having a hand in the poisoning of his own spies to

    The Ukrainian intelligence service claims to have uncovered a plot from a small band of Putin’s closest aides to dethrone the president.

    The powerful insiders are said to be dismayed at the ramifications of the war and the sanctions imposed on the Russian economy.

    And the plotters are reportedly considering all options to wipe out Putin – including poisoning him or faking an accident.

    If Putin is successfully toppled, his 70-year-old former sidekick and spymaster Alexander Bortnikov, who has been sanctioned by the US, is reportedly in pole position to replace him.

  • Savage attack

    Footage from the aftermath of the attack on protesters in Kherson appeared to show at least one civilian laid on the ground bleeding heavily.

    Local media confirmed later that the one person reported wounded at the scene was the man on video.

    In one of the videos, civilians are seen running away through smoke-filled streets as Russian soldiers walk towards them firing their rifles into the air.

    The smoke may have been tear gas while the loud bangs are thought to have been caused by flashbang grenades.

    Ukrainian media reported that a memorial located in the centre of the square had been defaced with graffiti.

    The vandals wrote a message accusing Ukrainian forces of being “murderers of the children of Donbas” and that locals had been trying to clean it.


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