The Ukrainian embassy in Italy asked the city of Modena on Thursday to withdraw its approval for the use of a civic hall to host an event about Russia’s reconstruction of the war-wrecked city of Mariupol. Mariupol, a port city on the Sea of Azov in southern Ukraine, was the scene of some of the heaviest fighting in the early stages of Moscow’s invasion in 2022. It had been almost completely destroyed by shelling when Russia captured and occupied it in May 2022 after a protracted siege.
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