What happened
The defence of Mariupol ends at the Azovstal steelworks after months of encirclement; the city is largely destroyed.
Russia gains its land bridge to Crimea; the siege becomes the war's defining humanitarian catastrophe and a symbol on both sides' information fronts.
Confidence: High
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