Mariupol before and after the war: the destruction left after the Russian invasion

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While the Ukrainian city of Mariupol was unlikely to grace a tourist brochure, there was no shortage of people proved willing to die for the right to call it their own.

Today, the once-obscure port on the Azov Sea is destined for a place in history books, as the scene of some of the fiercest urban combat the 21st century has witnessed – and a reminder of the kind of warfare Europe hoped to have turned the page on.

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