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Newsday: 16/03/2022 05:06 GMT : Mariupol hospital staff and patients ‘taken hostage’ by Russian troops

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16/03/2022 05:06 GMT : Mariupol hospital staff and patients ‘taken hostage’ by Russian troops

Mariupol hospital staff and patients ‘taken hostage’ by Russian troops

BBC World Service - Newsday, Mariupol hospital staff and patients ‘taken hostage’ by Russian troops

Around 400 people are thought to be held, says the deputy mayor of Mariupol

Around 400 people are thought to be inside, with some reports that locals were forced into the hospital from nearby homes

Evacuation buses and aid trucks are waiting to go into Mariupol in southern Ukraine but remain blocked by Russian forces besieging the port. We’ll get the latest from there and also the capital, Kyiv.

We get a rare insight into life under Russian occupation in the port city of Melitopol.

And Tesla’s chief executive, Elon Musk, challenges Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to a duel.

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