Russian forces pounded the port city of Mariupol on Saturday, shelling an area around a mosque that was sheltering more than 80 people, including children. Fighting also raged in the outskirts of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, and Russia kept up its bombardment of other resisting cities.
- There was no immediate word of casualties from the shelling of the area surrounding Mariupol's elegant, city-center mosque. The Ukrainian government said the Sultan Suleiman Mosque was hit, but an unverified Instagram post by a man claiming to be the mosque association's president said a bomb fell about 750 yards away, but that the mosque itself hadn't been hit.
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