Warning: there are some highly distressing images from the very start of this report. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)

It is a city without water, without access to food, without communication or power.

A city reduced to ruins by constant Russian bombardment - a city which cannot even properly bury its dead.

A message from the International Red Cross in Mariupol speaks of an "increasingly dire and desperate" situation - while President Volodymyr Zelenskyy branded the bomb attack on its maternity hospital yesterday as a war crime.
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