Russian forces pressured a stubborn pocket of resistance in Mariupol, Ukraine, amid renewed hopes for an evacuation of thousands of civilians from the shattered port city.
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Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko urged locals to leave the city, though previous such agreements have fallen apart, with Russians preventing buses meant to pick up evacuees from entering the city or shelling escape routes. There was no immediate confirmation of the evacuation from the Russian side, which issued a new ultimatum to the Ukrainian defenders to surrender Wednesday. The Ukrainians have ignored previous demands to leave the sprawling steel plant's warren of tunnels and bunkers.
Social media has given journalists and the public access to a huge amount of information from the war in Ukraine, but separating fact from disinformation has never been harder. Members of the NBC Social Newsgathering team joined NBCLX storyteller Clark Fouraker to walk him through how they vet social media videos to get at the truth.
“They have driven almost everyone and everything that is capable of fighting us against Ukraine,” he said in his nightly video address to the nation.
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