Vladimir Putin has ordered his forces not to storm the last remaining Ukrainian stronghold in the city of Mariupol - but to blockade it instead.

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It's thought that hundreds of civilians - and as many as two thousand Ukrainian soldiers - could be holed up in the Azovstal steel plant.

In a televised meeting with his defence minister, the Russian president ordered that it be blocked off "so that a fly cannot pass through".
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