After the Russians occupied Mariupol in May 2022, they started using Metro’s premises as a point to distribute humanitarian aid to the starving locals, forcing people to wait in long lines.

Source: https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-war-satellite-images-reveal-devastation-russia-invasion/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication

A man walks past damaged buildings in Mariupol.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/jan/28/russia-ukraine-war-zelenskiy-says-frontline-fighting-in-east-extremely-acute-live

A math teacher from Mariupol used a menorah as a lamp in a dark basement bomb shelter, so that she could give an insulin shot to her diabetic and paralyzed mother.

Source: https://forward.com/opinion/537599/ukrainian-jewish-identity-rebirth-war/

A new women’s soccer team was formed in Kyiv, Ukraine, after Mariupol was destroyed and captured by Russian forces.

Source: https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2023/0421/Mariupol-women-s-soccer-team-kicks-back-against-Russian-occupation?icid=rss

A Russian court this month sentenced a journalist Maria Ponomarenko to six years for a social media posting that Russian military jets were responsible for bombing a theatre in Mariupol where civilians were sheltering.

Source: https://abcnews.go.com/International/russia-ukraine-war-life-russia-year-after-invasion/story?id=97255588

“Beginning with Mariupol, the world started to wake up in understanding what’s going on,” he said.

Source: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/world-news/2023/05/a-year-after-mariupols-fall-azovstal-survivor-recalls-surrender-with-pain-and-a-sense-of-purpose/

Bogdan Yermokhin, originally from the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, tried to return to Ukraine in March but was stopped by Russian border guards.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67368313?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

But he has now returned to Mariupol after negotiations between Moscow, Kyiv and Belarus.

Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1836649/ukraine-russia-war-live-vladimir-putin-prison-releases

Everything I have covered and documented in Mariupol: gone.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12276735/Putins-British-prisoner-AIDEN-ASLIN-captured-Russian-goons.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

However, a number of commentators have cast doubt on whether or not the Russian president really is in Mariupol, or have suggested that the "residents" he met with were actors.

Source: https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/10389008/putin-ukrainian-city-mariupol-arrest-warrant/

In an earlier attempt to try and portray life returning to normal, President Putin even paid an unexpected visit to Mariupol in March this year.

Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1799248/russians-duped-into-buying-flats-mariupol-ukraine

In the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, where the Russian advance killed tens of thousands of civilians and destroyed 50 percent of the city’s housing stock, a handful of new apartment buildings were recently constructed.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/12/19/ukraine-russia-war-stalemate-victory-congress-military-aid/

Irina Gurskaya, a retired economist and activist from Penza in western Russia in her late 60s, was helping people from the razed Ukrainian city of Mariupol reach the Estonian border.

Source: https://www.pressherald.com/2023/02/25/discreetly-and-at-peril-russian-volunteers-help-ukrainian-refugees/

Last month, he visited the Russian-held port of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov.

Source: https://wtop.com/russia-ukraine-war-news/2023/04/putin-visits-russian-troops-in-occupied-ukraine/

Mariupol players at a service station before their match against EMC-Podillya and in an air-raid shelter during it.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/nov/11/mariupol-women-football-bomb-shelter

Mariupol "was the first insight of how different Russia's narrative about this war is to reality," said Chernov.

Source: https://www.rawstory.com/after-brazil-unrest-painstaking-effort-to-restore-damaged-treasures/

May 2022 drone footage reportedly showing mass graves in a cemetery near Mariupol.

Source: https://worldcrunch.com/focus/life-escape-mairupol-ukraine-testimony

Mrs Warrington visited Przemysl, Poland on 13 March 2022, before crossing into Ukraine for the first time within a week to deliver an ambulance to Mariupol and aid to Lviv, as well as help with evacuations of adults and children.

Source: https://www.alloaadvertiser.com/news/national/23332469.im-not-hero-not-wimp-either---uk-aid-workers-reflect-ukraine/?ref=rss

Now he’s responsible for ‘rebuilding’ Mariupol, the city Putin has wiped off the face of the earth and occupied.

Source: https://londonlovesbusiness.com/svetlana-maniovich-the-wife-of-a-russian-war-criminal-lives-europe-unaffected-by-sanctions-and-is-allowed-to-spend-blood-money-in-london/

One year ago: Ukrainian forces fought off continuing Russian efforts to occupy Mariupol and claimed to have retaken a strategic suburb of Kyiv, mounting a defense so dogged that stoked fears Russia’s Vladimir Putin would escalate the war to new heights.

Source: https://www.recordherald.com/2023/03/22/today-in-history-87/