In launching an offensive against the Ukrainian coastal city of Mariupol, pro-Russian separatists have selected a target of both strategic and symbolic importance in their bloody conflict with the government in Kyiv.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty: Mariupol; a strategic and symbolic target for pro-Russian rebels
Medics wheel a woman who was wounded in shelling in the Sartana village next to Mariupol on Oct. 15, 2014.
