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Weekend: Russia claims near total control of Mariupol

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Russia claims near total control of Mariupol

17/04/2022 GMT

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Russia says it is in near total control of the devastated city of Mariupol.

Russia has claimed near total control of the port city of Mariupol save for a few pockets still under the Ukrainian resistance forces.

 A new book about the documents and personal notebook recovered from Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan after he was killed by US Special Operations forces in 2011.

 Also in the programme: We hear from the great-grand daughter of Nikita Khrushchev, the former Soviet Union leader, who says the capture of Mariupol could allow Russia to end the war.

Joining Celia Hatton are Liana Fix, programme director for international affairs at the Körber-Stiftung think tank in Berlin and Matthew Green, global investigations editor at DeSmog, a non-profit news website focused on exposing "climate misconduct by companies and governments.

(Picture: Service members of pro-Russian troops inspect streets during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine April 7, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko.)

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