Putin Calls Off Storm of Mariupol With Ukraine Troops Surrounded
- President orders Shoigu to seal off, not storm industrial zone
- Strategic port is key to Russian efforts to link up to Crimea
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President Vladimir Putin declared that Russia had seized Ukraine’s Mariupol even as his defense minister said more than 2,000 opposing troops remain holed up in an industrial complex in the strategic southern port city.