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This salon is amazing! I had never had a professional haircut ever, and Talia did an excellent job talking me through everything before the big chop to make sure I would be happy with my results once we were done. My hair turned out better than I ever could’ve imagined. She was personable and calmed my nerves about cutting my hair for the very first time. Price is worth it for the above-and-beyond service, even got a call a few days later from the owner to see how my experience was, which was a nice personal touch. Will definitely be back!

I am very excited to have been matched up with Chantel. She talked to me to get a good feel for what I wanted in my hair style and did an extremely nice job on my hair. I am very hard to please and she met all of my expectations. I’ve already scheduled my next appointment.

The Yacht Club Salon is the most beautiful salon I’ve been to! All of the staff was super friendly and welcoming. I had a Balayage done by Drake and she did an amazing job! I love the way my hair turned out and everything about my experience was excellent. Thank you guys!

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President Vladimir Putin flew into the occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol in Donetsk. The unannounced trip, which wasn’t planned in advance, came hours after he visited Crimea for “reunification” events marking the 9th anniversary of Russia’s annexation of the peninsula.

The Russian leader’s first visit to an area newly occupied by Russia during its year-long war — and the site of one of the deadliest battles — came after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Putin on Friday, citing his alleged role in unlawfully deporting thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia. Kids from Mariupol are believed to be among those transported to Russia.

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Vladimir Putin praised Xi Jinping’s approach to resolving the war in Ukraine as “well-balanced” ahead of the Chinese president’s visit to Russia this week. In an article published on the Kremlin website, Putin reiterated that he blames the West for provoking his invasion of Ukraine and said Russia remains open to a political and diplomatic resolution.

In return, Russian state media published an article by Xi in which he said China had been constructive in mitigating spillover of the war and facilitating a political settlement and that there is “no simple solution to a complex issue.” Xi called his visit to Russia “a journey of friendship, cooperation and peace.”

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“Who are you going to talk to then?” after a move that further isolates Putin, said Vucic whose government has condemned the invasion of Ukraine but declined to join Western sanctions against the Kremlin. “Saving lives and achieving piece is much more important,” he told reporters in Belgrade.

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China’s leader is headed to Russia for a three-day state visit that starts Monday, and is widely expected to hold a phone conversation with Zelenskiy after that.

Kremlin Releases 40-Minute Video of Putin in Mariupol (11 a.m.)

The Kremlin released a 40-minute video of Russian President Vladimir Putin driving around Mariupol in an SUV at night in a highly-classified trip that wasn’t planned in advance.

Putin was shown visiting a new apartment block, where he stood in a playground surrounded by bodyguards while an official showed him photographs of reconstruction works. Later, Putin was shown meeting with local people in the Nevsky district, who told him how grateful they were for Russia’s “victory.” One man invited Putin to his apartment and the Russian president made a brief visit.

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Xi Heads to Russia, His Chances of Peacemaker Dented by Putin Embrace (7 a.m.)

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Putin traveled by helicopter into Mariupol on the Sea of Azov in southern Donetsk province, the Kremlin said. The Russian leader’s unannounced visit - his first since Russia invaded Ukraine a year ago and later claimed to have annexed four provinces - followed his appearance in Crimea.

Putin reviewed construction and restoration work in Mariupol, Tass said. An official video showed Putin driving a car through streets at night. The location can’t be verified. Much of the city, which had a pre-war population of about 450,000, was laid to waste in one of the bloodiest battles of Russia’s war.

The visit comes almost exactly a year after a Russian missile strike on the Mariupol Drama Theater on March 16, 2022, killed hundreds of people sheltering inside. Amnesty International has labeled the theater strike “a clear war crime.” Ukraine estimates that 20,000 civilians died during Russia’s months-long siege.

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By Kathleen Magramo , Sana Noor Haq and Ed Upright, CNN

Ukraine has launched "most massive strike" on Donetsk since 2014, says Russia-installed mayor

From CNN staff in Kyiv, Ukraine

Ukrainian forces carried out the biggest attack on the occupied Donetsk region of the country since 2014 on Thursday, according to a Russian-installed official.

Donetsk has been held by Russian-backed separatists since 2014 and it is one of four Ukrainian regions that Moscow attempted to annex in October, in violation of international law.

Heavy fighting in the region in recent months has caused extensive destruction, especially around the city of Bakhmut.

“At exactly 7 a.m. the [Ukrainians] subjected the center of Donetsk to the most massive strike since 2014,” Moscow-appointed mayor, Aleksey Kulemzin, posted on Telegram.  “Forty rockets from BM-21 'Grad' MLRS were fired at civilians in our city,” he said, adding that a key intersection in Donetsk city center had come under fire. 

Kulemzin shared photographs on Telegram of damage to residential and commercial buildings and a cathedral.

There have been no immediate reports of casualties, according to Russian state media. 

CNN cannot independently confirm Kulemzin’s claims.

The war in Ukraine ramped up in the southern and eastern regions of the country, as Russia unleashed fresh assaults on Kherson overnight.

The city was hit 86 times in the past 24 hours and three people were killed in shelling on Wednesday, according to the regional head of the Kherson military administration, Yaroslav Yanushevych.

On Thursday, the Kremlin appeared to rebuff Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's peace solution that involved asking Russia to start withdrawing troops from Ukraine this Christmas.

This takes place against the backdrop of a harsh winter season in Ukraine inflamed by sweeping power outages caused by Russian strikes and a grinding battle of attrition .

Kherson is "completely disconnected" from power

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Kherson is "completely disconnected" from power supplies amid Russian strikes on the southern city, according to a Ukrainian official, following widespread power outages across the country.

Ongoing shelling from Moscow has targeted the Korabelny district of Kherson, the head of Kherson region military administration, Yaroslav Yanushevych said on Telegram.

Ukrainian authorities have worked to repair the country's power grid, after assaults from Moscow aimed at key infrastructure in recent months left millions without access to heat and power in freezing conditions.

Russia unleashes fresh strikes on Kherson

From CNN's Olga Voitovych in Kyiv

Russia launched strikes at the city of Kherson on Thursday, after a wave of fatal shelling in the southern Ukrainian region earlier this week.

A strike occurred “100 meters” away from the building of the Kherson regional administration which was also attacked yesterday, according to the deputy head of Ukraine's Presidential Office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko.

Kherson was hit 86 times with “artillery, MLRS, tanks, mortars and UAVs," in the past 24 hours, the regional head of the Kherson military administration, Yaroslav Yanushevych, said

Assaults on Wednesday killed three people and injured another 13, including a 8 -year-old boy , Yanushevych added.

Russian Embassy warns of "unpredictable consequences" if US sends Patriot missiles to Ukraine

From CNN's Radina Gigova in London 

Any shipment of US Patriot missiles to Ukraine could "lead to unpredictable consequences" and threaten global security, the Russian Embassy in Washington said in a statement Wednesday. 

The Biden administration is finalizing plans to send the advanced long-range air defense system  to Ukraine to help counter Moscow's attacks, according to US officials cited in a CNN report Tuesday.

"If this is confirmed, we will witness yet another provocative step by the [Biden] administration, which can lead to unpredictable consequences," the Russian Embassy statement said.

It added that continued arms deliveries to Ukraine "will only strengthen the Zelensky regime’s sense of impunity and push it to new crimes against civilians" in four Ukrainian regions that Russia claims to have annexed.

The statement also criticized US support for Ukraine, saying: "Washington’s strategy causes enormous damage not only to the Russian-American relations, but also creates additional risks for global security."

Speaking earlier, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that any Patriot missiles sent to Ukraine would be legitimate targets for Russian forces, but added that the US plan had not been confirmed.

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Thursday that Washington’s potential delivery would increase the risk of the US military’s direct involvement in the Ukrainian conflict, according to state news agency TASS. 

"On December 13, the US announced its intention to supply Ukraine with a Patriot air defense missile battery. Earlier, many experts, including those overseas, questioned the rationality of such a step which would lead to an escalation of the conflict and increase the risk of directly dragging the US army into combat," Zakharova said at a briefing in Moscow. 

"We would like to reiterate that all arms supplied to Ukraine by the West are legitimate military targets for Russia’s Armed Forces and will be either eliminated or captured as our country has repeatedly stated," she said. 

"Washington continues to strong-arm other NATO countries demanding from them a more substantial contribution to the militarization of Ukraine," Zakharova said. 

Russia publicizes installation of intercontinental missile ahead of "Strategic Forces Day"

From CNN's Katharina Krebs

In a further sign of the importance it attaches to its strategic nuclear deterrent, the Russian military has loaded a "Yars" ballistic missile into a silo launcher in the Kaluga region.

The Ministry of Defense released video to mark the event, just ahead of Russia's "Day of Strategic Missile Forces."

It said that an "intercontinental ballistic missile of the Yars complex was loaded into a silo launcher at the Kozelsky missile formation in the Kaluga region."

"The importance of this operation lies in the fact that the missile will be on combat duty as planned. The Motherland will receive another sample of nuclear missile weapons, which will allow us to solve any tasks at the strategic level," said Alexei Sokolov, commander of the Kozelsky missile formation, in a video shared by the ministry together with the statement.

Patriot defense system:  The announcement of Russia's intercontinental missile installation comes after reports that the Biden administration is finalizing plans to send an  advanced long-range air defense system  to Ukraine to help counter Moscow's attacks.

Boy, 8, killed in Russian shelling of Kherson

From CNN's Denis Lapin in Kyiv

An 8-year old boy was among two people killed by Russian shelling of the city of Kherson on Wednesday, according to Ukrainian officials.

Yaroslav Yanushevych, head of the Kherson regional military administration, said Russian shells had hit residential buildings in the Dniprovskyi district of the city, which was liberated by Ukrainian forces last month.

"A child died as a result of Russian shelling. Doctors tried to resuscitate the boy for an hour," he said, adding that a woman "was caught by Russian shelling on her way home. She died on the spot from her wounds."

Two others were wounded, he said.

Kherson attacks: Russian strikes also hit the regional administration building in Kherson on Wednesday morning, amid a wave of  fatal shelling  on the southern Ukrainian region.

On Tuesday, Kherson was shelled 42 times, according to Yanushevych. The targets included a yacht club, a college, a school and residential buildings. One person was killed and one was injured.

Ukraine raids more Orthodox Church premises suspected of being pro-Moscow

From CNN's Katharina Krebs and Tim Lister

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said Wednesday it had carried out searches of premises belonging to a branch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in nine regions — finding Russian passports, propagandist literature and "passes of the occupiers."

Part of the church in Ukraine — which split earlier this year — remains loyal to the Moscow Patriarchate (MP). 

"The Security Service completed counter-intelligence (security) measures at UOC (MP) facilities in Zakarpattia, Chernivtsi, Rivne, Volyn, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Lviv, Zhytomyr and Kherson regions," the SBU said. 

It said it found Russian passports, St. George's ribbons — which are popular among pro-Russian separatists — symbols of the banned pro-Russian party "Opposition Platform For Life" and "manuals for spreading enemy propaganda through the faithful" on the territory of the dioceses.

In addition, intelligence officers found books by Ivan Ilyin, who is often called "Putin's philosopher," it said.

In the village of Chornobaivka  in Kherson region,  the SBU said it had discovered passes of the pro-Russian occupiers during the inspection of the church premises.

It said photographs of Russian documents "on ensuring cooperation with the military commissariats of the Russian Federation" were found in the diocese of  the Lviv region .

The SBU also said it had found a monk with a Russian passport and contacts in the Russian Federation on the territory of one of the monasteries of  the Rivne region  in western Ukraine.

"His possible involvement in intelligence and subversive activities for the benefit of the Russian special services is currently being investigated," it said.

The Lviv diocese said  in a statement on Facebook  that the SBU had inspected premises and that "no anti-Ukrainian items and literature were found."

The SBU has  stepped up a campaign of raids  against parts of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in recent weeks.

Kremlin says any US Patriot missiles possibly sent to Ukraine would "certainly" be targets for Russian forces

From CNN's Tim Lister and Anna Chernova

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that if US Patriot missiles are sent to Ukraine, they would be legitimate targets for Russian forces.

But he added that the US plan had not been confirmed.

Peskov was asked by CNN if he held the same view as former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev,  who has said  that the missiles "would immediately become a legitimate target of our armed forces."

"Certainly," Peskov responded, in remarks later picked up by official Russian news agency TASS. But he added, "I would refrain from comment for now, though, because these are just media reports."

CNN  reported exclusively  Tuesday that the Biden administration is finalizing plans to send the Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine, with a decision possibly announced as soon as this week, according to two US officials and a senior administration official.

The Pentagon's plan still needs to be approved by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin before it is sent to President Joe Biden for his signature. The three officials told CNN that approval is expected.

It is not clear how many missile launchers will be sent, but a typical Patriot battery includes a radar set that detects and tracks targets, computers, power generating equipment, an engagement control station and up to eight launchers, each holding four ready-to-fire missiles. 

Once the plans are finalized, the Patriots are expected to ship quickly in the coming days and Ukrainians will be trained to use them at a US Army base in Grafenwoehr, Germany, officials told CNN.

Russian officials have repeatedly said that all Western systems sent to Ukraine — including the  HIMARS anti-air defenses  — will be targeted.

Ukrainian authorities have been seeking Patriot batteries for months but have not confirmed that the US has agreed to dispatch them. On Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said only that a meeting of the military's General Staff had talked about the "protection of the sky."

"We are constantly strengthening our air and anti-drone defense. And we are doing everything to get more modern and more powerful systems for Ukraine," he said.

CNN's Barbara Starr contributed reporting to this post.

Wagner boss claims "US intelligence services" behind murder of Russian defector

From CNN's Tim Lister and Katharina Krebs 

Russian oligarch Evgeny Prigozhin has made a series of claims about the brutal murder of a former member of his Wagner company who had defected to Ukraine — alleging without evidence that US intelligence services killed the man. 

Prigozhin, a long-time associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin and founder of the private military contractor Wagner, said he would ask Russian authorities "to establish the facts and circumstances of the murder of Yevgeny Anatolyevich Nuzhin."

In November a video emerged of Nuzhin, who had crossed to the Ukrainian side, being brutally murdered with a sledgehammer after claiming that he had been abducted in Kyiv. 

In a statement carried by his holding company Concord Wednesday, Prigozhin asked Russia's prosecutor general to "request the US intelligence services provide information on how and under what circumstances Yevgeny Nuzhin ended up on the territory of Ukraine and to report whether CIA or other intelligence agencies of NATO countries took part in his abduction, interrogation and execution."

It's a puzzling about-turn for the oligarch:  In November, he applauded the murder of Nuzhin, saying he had "betrayed his people, betrayed his comrades, betrayed them consciously. He was not taken prisoner, nor did he surrender. Rather, he planned his escape. Nuzhin is a traitor.”

Before his alleged abduction, Nuzhin told Ukrainian interviewers that he had planned his escape from Russian-held territory and was ready to fight on the Ukrainian side.

Prigozhin now contends that Wagner fighters could not possibly have abducted Nuzhin and brought him back across the front line without being caught but claims that US intelligence services “abduct people throughout the entire world.”

Ukrainian officials say Nuzhin was returned to Russia of his own volition. Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podoliak said last month that Nuzhin had chosen to return to Russia as part of a prisoner exchange and had gone through "an official prisoner-of-war exchange procedure."

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Russia scrubs Mariupol’s Ukraine identity, builds on death

FILE - A Russian soldier guards the site of a new apartment building which is is being built with the support of the Russian Defense Ministry, in Mariupol, in territory under control of the government of the Donetsk People’s Republic, in eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, July 13, 2022. This photo was taken during a trip organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense. (AP Photo/File)

FILE - A woman walks past a burning apartment building after shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, Sunday, March 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

FILE - An explosion erupts from an apartment building at 110 Mytropolytska St., after a Russian army tank fired on it in Mariupol, Ukraine, Friday, March 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

This March 26, 2022 image from video shows the makeshift graves of two women who were killed at 110 Mytropolytska St. in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol when a Russian tank opened fire on their building on March 11. Residents say the city was full of makeshift graves such as these, with thousands killed during the Russian siege. (AP Photo)

This Dec. 2, 2022 image from video shows fencing surrounding the Drama Theater in Mariupol, Ukraine. Months after hundreds died in Russian airstrikes on the theater, the fencing is etched with Russian and Ukrainian literary figures as well as an outline of the theater’s previous life, before Russian occupation. (AP Photo)

FILE - Local actors rehearse Russian playwright Anton Chekhov’s Vaudeville play on the stage of the Philharmonic in Mariupol, in territory under control of the government of the Donetsk People’s Republic, in eastern Ukraine, Sunday, June 12, 2022. This photo was taken during a trip organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense. (AP Photo/File)

This Nov. 16, 2022 image from video shows some of the new graves which have been dug since the Russian siege began, at the Staryi Krym cemetery on the outskirts of the occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol. Most are marked only by number. The Associated Press estimated at least 10,300 new graves in and around Mariupol — 8,500 in this cemetery — by analyzing satellite imagery from early March through December, noting sections where the earth had been disturbed. (AP Photo)

FILE - This combination of satellite images provided by Maxar Technologies shows the Staryi Krym cemetery in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 29, 2022, top, and additional graves seen on Nov. 30, 2022. (Maxar Technologies via AP, File)

FILE - A Russian soldier inspects a corridor in the Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol, in territory under control of the government of the Donetsk People’s Republic, in eastern Ukraine, Monday, June 13, 2022. This photo was taken during a trip organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense. (AP Photo/File)

The remains of a statue and other rubble lie in front of the Azovstal steel mill, which was the last place in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol to fall to Russian forces in late May 2022. A Russian master plan for the city envisions restoring the destroyed factory as an industrial park, but there are no signs any work has begun. (AP Photo)

FILE - Workers build an apartment building for residents of Mariupol affected by hostilities, in Mariupol, in territory under control of the government of the Donetsk People’s Republic, in eastern Ukraine, Friday, July 1, 2022. (AP Photo/File)

FILE - Foreign journalists look inside a new unit in a new apartment block that is being built with the support of the Russia Defense Ministry in Mariupol, in territory under control of the government of the Donetsk People’s Republic, in eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, July 13, 2022. This photo was taken during a trip organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense. (AP Photo/File)

FILE - A bus stops in front of an apartment building damaged during a heavy fighting in Mariupol, Donetsk People’s Republic, Ukraine, Friday, Nov. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov, File)

FILE - A construction worker works on the site of the new municipal medical center in Mariupol with an Orthodox church in the background, in territory under control of the government of the Donetsk People’s Republic, in eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, July 13, 2022. This photo was taken during a trip organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense. (AP Photo/File)

FILE - This combination of satellite images provided by Maxar Technologies shows damaged residential apartment buildings in the Livoberezhnyi district of Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 29, 2022, top, and on Nov. 30, 2022, after they were torn down. (Maxar Technologies via AP, File)

This photo provided by the family shows the coffins of two young cousins, Artem and Angelina Erashov, who were killed in Mariupol, Ukraine, during Russian shelling on March 9, 2022. Their parents fled Mariupol soon after but returned to the occupied city in July to rebury the children, ages 5 and 7, in the Staryi Krym cemetery, now the site of thousands of new graves since the Russian invasion began Feb. 24. (Family photo via AP)

This pre-war photo provided by the family shows 5-year-old Artem Erashov, with his mother, Lydya. The boy and his 7-year-old cousin, Angelina, were killed during Russian shelling on March 9, 2022. The families of the young cousins returned to occupied Mariupol to rebury their children in the Staryi Krym cemetery, now the site of thousands of new graves since the Russian invasion began Feb. 24. (Family photo via AP)

This pre-war photo provided by the family shows 5-year-old Artem Erashov, with his father, Volodymyr. The boy and his 7-year-old cousin, Angelina, were killed during Russian shelling on March 9, 2022. The families of the young cousins returned to occupied Mariupol to rebury their children in the Staryi Krym cemetery, now the site of thousands of new graves since the Russian invasion began Feb. 24. (Family photo via AP)

This photo provided by the family shows the graves of two young cousins, Artem and Angelina Erashov, who were killed in Mariupol, Ukraine, during Russian shelling on March 9, 2022. Their parents fled Mariupol soon after but returned to the occupied city in July to rebury the children, ages 5 and 7, in the Staryi Krym cemetery, now the site of thousands of new graves since the Russian invasion began Feb. 24. (Family photo via AP)

This 2022 photo shows one of the at least 14 apartment buildings Russians have constructed in the occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol. Residents say there’s a waitlist of more than 11,000 people for a new apartment. Most of the city’s housing stock was hit by munitions during the siege of the city earlier in the year. (AP Photo)

This photo provided by the family shows Ivan and Iryna Kalinin before the Feb. 24, 2022, start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Iryna and their unborn child were killed in a Russian airstrike on Mariupol’s maternity hospital. Ivan returned to the occupied city to rebury his wife and baby. (Family photo via AP)

In this photo provided by the family, Iryna Kalinin stands in front of a Christmas tree during her pregnancy. She and her unborn first child were killed after a Russian airstrike hit a Mariupol maternity hospital while she was in labor on March 9, 2022. Her husband, Ivan, returned to the city to rebury his wife and their baby. (Family photo via AP)

In exile in Dnipro, Ukraine, Petro Andryushchenko, an aide to the mayor of Mariupol, Ukraine, speaks about Mariupol’s transformation under Russian occupation, on Nov. 22, 2022. He and many others from the occupied city have settled here, and hope their home will be liberated. Dnipro’s library, where he spoke, has been transformed into a center for refugees from Mariupol. (AP Photo/Vasilisa Stepanenko)

A child from Mariupol plays at the library in Dnipro, Ukraine, on Nov. 22, 2022. The library has been transformed into a center for refugees from Mariupol since the city’s capture by Russian forces in the spring. (AP Photo/Vasilisa Stepanenko)

Inna Nepomnyshaya looks at a photo of her apartment building at 110 Mytropolytska St. in Mariupol, Ukraine, as it was struck by Russian tank fire in March 11, 2022, during an interview in Dnipro, Ukraine, on Nov. 22, 2022, where she has settled after fleeing her home. The shell shattered the walls of Nepomnyshaya’s apartment and obliterated those of the neighbors above, below and behind her. (AP Photo/Vasilisa Stepanenko)

FILE - This combination of satellite images provided by Maxar Technologies shows a site before the construction of new Russian military facility in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 29, 2022, top, and on Nov. 30, 2022. (Maxar Technologies via AP, File)

FILE - This combination of satellite images provided by Maxar Technologies shows the destroyed Mariupol, Ukraine Theater on March 29, 2022, top, and a screen built around it seen on Nov. 30, 2022. (Maxar Technologies via AP, File)

FILE - Damaged and burned buildings are seen from an open window of a new apartment block that is being built with support of the Russia Defense Ministry in Mariupol, in territory under control of the government of the Donetsk People’s Republic, in eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, July 13, 2022. This photo was taken during a trip organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense. (AP Photo/File)

At left, this pre-war photo provided by the family shows 5-year-old Artem Erashov, with his mother, Lydya. The boy and his 7-year-old cousin, Angelina, were killed during Russian shelling on March 9, 2022. Right: photo provided by the family shows the coffins of two young cousins, Artem and Angelina Erashov, who were killed in Mariupol, Ukraine, during Russian shelling on March 9, 2022. Their parents fled Mariupol soon after but returned to the occupied city in July to rebury the children, ages 5 and 7, in the Staryi Krym cemetery, now the site of thousands of new graves since the Russian invasion began Feb. 24. (Family photos via AP)

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Throughout Mariupol, Russian workers are tearing down bombed-out buildings at a rate of at least one a day, hauling away shattered bodies with the debris.

Russian military convoys are rumbling down the broad avenues of what is swiftly becoming a garrison city, and Russian soldiers, builders, administrators and doctors are replacing the tens of thousands of Ukrainians who have died or left.

Many of the city’s Ukrainian street names are reverting to Soviet ones, with the Avenue of Peace that cuts through Mariupol to be labeled Lenin Avenue. Even the large sign that announces the name of the city at its entrance has been Russified, repainted with the red, white and blue of the Russian flag and the Russian spelling.

Eight months after Mariupol fell into Russian hands , Russia is eradicating all vestiges of Ukraine from it – along with the evidence of war crimes buried in its buildings, such as the famed Drama Theater where demolition started Thursday. The few open schools teach a Russian curriculum, phone and television networks are Russian, the Ukrainian currency is dying out, and Mariupol is now in the Moscow time zone. On the ruins of the old Mariupol, a new Russian city is rising, with materials from at least one European company, The Associated Press found.

But the AP investigation into life in occupied Mariupol also underlines what its residents already know all too well: No matter what the Russians do, they are building upon a city of death. More than 10,000 new graves now scar Mariupol, the AP found, and the death toll might run three times higher than an early estimate of at least 25,000. The former Ukrainian city has also hollowed out, with Russian plans to demolish well over 50,000 homes, the AP calculated.

Associated Press journalists were the last international media in Mariupol to escape heavy shelling in March, before Russian forces took the city over. This is the story of what has happened since. AP reconnected with many people whose tragedies were captured in photos and video during the deadliest days of the Russian siege.

Death surrounds Mariupol in the rapidly growing cemeteries on its outskirts, and its stench lingered over the city into the autumn. It haunts the memories of survivors, both in Mariupol and in exile.

Every one of the dozens of residents the AP spoke with knew someone killed during the siege of Mariupol , which began with the Feb. 24 invasion. As many as 30 people arrive at the morgue each day in hopes of tracking down a loved one.

Lydya Erashova watched her 5-year-old son Artem and her 7-year-old niece Angelina die after a Russian shelling in March. The family hastily buried the young cousins in a makeshift grave in a yard and fled Mariupol.

They returned in July to rebury the children, only to learn while on the road that the bodies had already been dug up and taken to a warehouse. As they approached the city center, each block was bleaker than the last.

“It is horror. Wherever you look, whichever way you look,” said Erashova. “Everything is black, is destroyed.”

Neither she nor her sister-in-law could bear to go inside the warehouse to identify the bodies of their children. Their husbands, who are brothers, chose the tiny coffins – one pink and one blue – to be placed together in a single grave.

Erashova, who is now in Canada, said no Russian rebuilding plan could possibly bring back what Mariupol lost.

“Our lives have been taken from us. Our child was taken from us,” she said. “It’s so ridiculous and stupid. How do you restore a dead city where people were killed at every turn ?”

RECKONING WITH DEATH

The AP investigation drew on interviews with 30 residents from Mariupol, including 13 living under Russian occupation; satellite imagery; hundreds of videos gathered from inside the city, and Russian documents showing a master plan. Taken together, they chronicle a comprehensive effort to suppress Mariupol’s collective history and memory as a Ukrainian city.

Mariupol was in the crosshairs of the Kremlin from the first day of the invasion. Just 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the Russian border, the city is a port on the Sea of Azov and crucial for Russian supply lines.

The city was hit relentlessly with airstrikes and artillery, its communications severed, its food and water cut off. Yet Mariupol refused to give in for 86 days. By the time the last Ukrainian fighters holed up in the Azovstal steel mill surrendered in May , Mariupol had become a symbol of Ukrainian resistance.

That resistance came at a high price. The thoroughness of Russia’s destruction of Mariupol can still be seen today. Videos taken across the city and satellite images show that munitions have left their mark on nearly every building across its 166 square kilometers (64 square miles).

Large swaths of the city are devoid of color and life, with fire-blackened walls, grey demolition dust and dead trees with shredded foliage. But the worst destruction Mariupol suffered may be measured in its death toll, which will never be fully known.

An AP analysis of satellite imagery taken over the past eight months of occupation shows 8,500 new graves in the outlying Staryi Krym cemetery alone, with possibly multiple bodies beneath each mound. There are at least three other trench gravesites around the city, including one created by Ukrainians themselves at the beginning of the siege.

In all, a total at least 10,300 new graves are scattered around Mariupol, according to AP’s methodology, confirmed by three forensic pathologists with expertise in mass graves. Thousands more bodies likely never even made it to the graveyard.

Back in May, when the city finally fell, the municipal government in exile estimated 25,000 people at a minimum had died. But at least three people in the city since June say the number killed is triple that or more, based on conversations with workers documenting body collection from the streets for the Russian occupation authorities.

Svitlana Chebotareva, a Mariupol resident who fled in March, said her neighbor died in a flat nearby, and the body is still there. Chebotareva returned home this autumn for just long enough to retrieve her belongings, since residents are free to come and go so long as they pass checkpoints. She said the Russians expect gratitude with their offer of a few new apartments.

“I don’t know how it’s possible now to give us ‘candies’ in exchange for destroyed homes and killed people,” she said in Kyiv. “As if there’s something to believe in.”

ERASING A UKRAINIAN CITY

The notices are taped to peeling, pockmarked walls by the entry, and addressed to “DEAR RESIDENTS.”

This is how those who remained in Mariupol learn their buildings are scheduled for imminent demolition. Often, despite shattered windows, frozen pipes and no electricity, they are still living inside because they have nowhere else to go.

In a review of hundreds of photos and video clips along with documents from occupation authorities, the AP found that more than 300 buildings in Mariupol have been or are about to be demolished. Some are individual homes, but most are multistory apartment blocks in the khrushchyovka style, launched by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in a housing crisis in the 1960s. With around 180 apartments inside or more, each building was designed to house as many families as possible.

That means in all, the demolitions will remove well over 50,000 homes, according to AP calculations.

“There is no discussion, people aren’t prepared,” said an activist in Mariupol, who like all inside Mariupol requested anonymity for fear of retribution. “People still live in the basements. Where they can go is unclear.”

Only Russians handle the debris itself, according to another resident still in the city who works on the sites. The stated reason is to avoid accidents, he said.

But Petro Andryushchenko, an aide to Mariupol’s mayor who is exiled in Dnipro, believes the real reason is to ensure that people don’t see the rotting corpses being hauled away. He said many of the buildings, especially in the neighborhood around Azovstal , contain 50 to 100 bodies each that will never get a decent burial. Those deaths will go unrecorded.

110 Mytropolytska is one of the buildings on Russia’s demolition list, scheduled to come down any day.

The smell of fresh-baked bread still brings Inna Nepomnyshaya, a doctor, back to her last night in March in her sixth-floor apartment there. When she saw the street price of bread in her besieged city, she decided to bake her own.

The smell warmed the air the next morning when her son-in-law arrived. It was time to leave, he insisted. Russian forces were closing in.

Nepomnyshaya was at her daughter’s building when Russian tanks rolled up to her own at dusk on March 11 . As AP journalists watched and recorded from the upper floor of nearby Hospital No. 2, one tank raised its gun at 110 Mytropolytska and fired.

The shell shattered the walls of Nepomnyshaya’s apartment and obliterated those of the neighbors above, below and behind her. Most of the neighbors were huddled in the basement, but two elderly women, Lydya and Nataliya, couldn’t make the trip up and down the stairs.

Their bodies would be buried in the courtyard soon after. Weeks later, AP video showed the rough graves still there.

With communications to the city cut, Nepomnyshaya did not learn of the fate of her apartment until her family had escaped to Ukrainian-held territory. Like many who left Mariupol, she still speaks of the city in the present tense.

“I live in Mariupol, this is my home,” she said, speaking by candlelight in a café in Dnipro, another city that had lost power. “This house was my fortress, and they took it away from me.”

Also on the demolition list are the buildings on either side. One was hit by at least one airstrike on March 11; the walls of another are in ruins.

Russia is now moving into the historic city center. Russian authorities in October dismantled Mariupol’s memorial to victims of the Holodomor, the Soviet-engineered famine in the 1930s that killed millions of Ukrainians, according to video posted on Russian television. They also painted over two murals commemorating victims of Russia’s 2014 attack on Ukraine, images obtained by the AP show.

“They spend an inordinate amount of time focusing on things like erasing demonstrations of Ukrainian identity and very little time tending to the needs of the Mariupol people,” said Michael Carpenter, U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which for years monitored eastern Ukraine. “It’s really a very brutal inhuman colonial experiment unfolding before our eyes.”

BUILDING A RUSSIAN CITY

As it tries to raze the remains of Ukraine, Russia has laid out a plan for a new city with a new population. At its heart will lie the historic Mariupol theater, according to the master plan first reported by the Russian site The Village in August and seen by The Associated Press.

The majestic Drama Theater became the city’s main bomb shelter until twin Russian airstrikes hit on March 16. Hundreds died, an AP investigation found, and residents said the site reeked of bodies all summer. To mask the ruins, Russian authorities put up a screen so tall it can be seen from space, etching the theater’s outline on the paneling in a ghostly reminder of its previous life.

On Thursday, the theater itself fell victim to the demolition campaign, according to video from the city seen by The Associated Press.

Also in the Russian documents are plans to restore the ruins of the obliterated Azovstal steel mill, the last Ukrainian holdout. The site is slated to be transformed into an industrial park by the end of next year, though there are no signs that any work has begun.

But a Russian military compound went up in record time, according to satellite imagery from Maxar Technologies that showed the vast U-shaped building with the Russian Army slogan emblazoned on the rooftop.

Russia already has constructed at least 14 new apartment buildings — a small fraction of the number coming down — and is repairing at least two of the hospitals it damaged by shelling. Video obtained by The Associated Press showed rows of pallets stacked with insulation from the Danish company Rockwool, which maintains its division in Russia despite criticism. Construction materials are not subject to sanctions.

In a statement, Rockwool’s Vice President of Communications Michael Zarin said the insulation panels were distributed without the company’s “knowledge or consent,” and that he hopes its products help restore health care, warmth and shelter to Ukrainians.

Videos show no furniture visible in the windows of the new apartments and few people on the sidewalks outside. Only pensioners, the disabled and those affiliated with the occupation seem to be getting them, according to multiple people still in Mariupol.

One man applied to the list in September and found himself in 11,700th place. He has friends in the 2,000 range who are still waiting, like him. And an old man he knows, whose number was in the 9,000s has already moved into one of the new buildings.

“I don’t know how it happens. I won’t speculate,” he said.

However, the man said he has no issue with the demolition of buildings that aren’t fit to live in. He is cautiously relaunching his own company in the new city.

But the plans for a Russian Mariupol depend on a population that simply no longer exists.

Thousands of Mariupol’s former residents were sent to Russia with little or no choice , and thousands more fled into other areas of Ukraine. Of Mariupol’s former population of around 425,000, just over a quarter stayed, according to estimates from Andryushchenko.

The Russian master plan for Mariupol calls for a population of 212,000 in 2022, and back to 425,000 by 2030. Right now, about 15,000 of the people in Mariupol people are Russian troops, said Andryushchenko, who drew his estimate from information about the soldiers taking over homes and public buildings. He said Russian riot police have begun patrolling the city to head off protests over the lack of heat, electricity and water.

Videos seen by the AP showed military convoys, along with construction trucks, clogging the streets. The activist the AP spoke with also confirmed an increase in the number of soldiers since Russian forces retreated from the Kharkiv and Kherson regions.

Construction workers from Russia show no signs of leaving, and tents were visible outside the Port City mall until the winter. Doctors and city administrators also have come in from Russia, according to Russian government announcements and physicians who left the city after refusing to work for the occupation authorities.

“There is no more Russian city now than Mariupol,” Dmitry Sablin, a Russian lawmaker born in Mariupol, said in an interview with Russian media in June after visiting the city.

The Kremlin is moving as swiftly as it can to ensure that those Ukrainians who stay see their future as Russians.

On Nov. 15, Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded Mariupol the title of “City of Military Glory” for the heroism of people he described as its defenders. On Dec. 7, Putin said his war against Ukraine had turned the Sea of Azov into “Russia’s internal sea.”

This suits many of those who remained behind just fine. Mariupol has always had some residents who considered themselves Russian.

“Whoever doesn’t like it, doesn’t come back,” one woman said.

NO FUTURE IN SIGHT

Russia’s occupation of Mariupol has divided families and friends into two categories: Those who stayed and those who fled. Both grapple with what Mariupol once was and will be.

When Ivan Kalinin escaped, he left behind the body of his wife Iryna and their unborn first child, both killed in the March 9 Russian airstrike on the maternity hospital . His parents and hers stayed in Mariupol.

He last saw his wife that morning when her labor began, and she sent him to fetch clothes and diapers. He learned about the airstrike at a military blockade on the way to the hospital. He and his father found her body the next day at another hospital.

“I do not even know how I survived it,” he said quietly. “I was drinking every day to fall asleep.”

Kalinin, who now lives in Wales, cannot imagine going home. Nor can he imagine life anywhere else.

“It is too painful for me to be there. I might return at some point — it is my hometown, after all,” he said. “I fall asleep every day hoping this is a dream. And I wake up with understanding that it is a reality.”

Mariupol is now torn between Russia and Ukraine. Some people who stayed are waiting for Russian citizenship just to get on with their lives. Yet the Ukrainian letter ï , which is not found in Russian, is appearing as graffiti around the city — a small act of defiance in a place many described as full of fear.

Nepomnyshaya, whose apartment was struck by a Russian shell, dreamed recently that she’d returned home and smelled bread. But she is not sure if she ever can or will go back.

“I believe that Mariupol will be rebuilt, that it will be Ukraine after all,” she said. “But I know that this smell is just a memory.”

Hinnant and Stepanenko reported from Dnipro, Ukraine. El Deeb reported from Beirut. Tilna reported from Lviv, Ukraine. Marshall Ritzel in New York, Michael Biesecker in Washington, and Mstyslav Chernov, Jamey Keaten, Evgeniy Maloletka and Inna Varenytsia in Kyiv, Ukraine, contributed.