Life In The Ruins Of Mariupol
A man pulls a cart toward a destroyed suburb of Mariupol on October 29.
Football players train in front of a heavily damaged building.
These photos, which were released by Reuters on October 30, offer a rare view inside Russian-occupied Mariupol, five months after Moscow seized control of the Ukrainian port city.
Construction workers in a war-damaged apartment building.
Images of the devastated city became emblematic of Russia's ruinous invasion of Ukraine, but in recent months only occasional photos have been released by Russia's state-run news agencies.
A photo taken on October 19 shows Russian military trucks in front of a heavily damaged building in the center of Mariupol.
A Mariupol man and his young nephew work in the yard of a damaged building on October 29.
Mariupol was captured by Russian forces in May after months of fighting left some 90 percent of the city's buildings damaged or destroyed. Thousands of people died in what became known as the siege of Mariupol.
An August 21 photo of the rebuilding of the Mariupol Chamber Philharmonic building.
Reconstruction work began almost immediately after the Russian takeover on some buildings in the center of Mariupol, but the images in this gallery that were released by Reuters on October 30 appear to show that vast swathes of the city remain uninhabitable.
A woman walks past a ruined apartment building on October 29.
The heavily damaged Azovstal steel mill photographed on October 29.
The historic Azovstal metalworks was the final holdout for members of Azov, a controversial Ukrainian regiment that previously used neo-Nazi imagery on its uniforms.
Russian President Vladimir Putin initially claimed "de-Nazification" as a justification of the February invasion of Ukraine, but the Kremlin has more recently framed the conflict as a war against "satanism."
The ruins of the Azovstal steel mill.
According to TASS, the ruined Azovstal site is set to be turned into an "industrial park, a tech park, an eco-park, and a transport and logistics center" at a cost of around $831 million.
A child's playground in the courtyard of a ruined apartment block on October 29.
Mariupol was once home to around 431,000 people. Less than a quarter of that number are estimated to remain in the city today.