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For nearly two weeks, Russian forces have been trying to encircle the city and cross the Southern Buh river

A defiant mayor of a captured city was kidnapped by Russian troops, Ukrainian authorities say, an act that prompted hundreds to protest.

By noon on Monday, the soundtrack of incoming and outgoing artillery fire around the city had reached high volume

“Few expected such strength from our people,” said a Ukrainian colonel whose soldiers have repelled a Russian attack on the port city of Mykolaiv for three days.