The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.----------Putin declares Mariupol captured, cancels plan to storm steel plantLVIV, Ukraine - President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russian forces have effectively seized control of Mariupol, a key area in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, as he called off a plan to storm a steel plant inside the southeast port city, where thousands of Ukrainians remained holed up.Declaring the military operation a "success," Putin ordered his Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to cancel plans to storm the Azovstal steel plant as it w…READ FULL ARTICLE
