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I'm David Knowles and this is Ukraine, the latest.

Today we'll look at the siege of Mariupol, accusations of Russia using chemical weapons

and the latest impact of the conflict on the economies of Russia and Ukraine.

This hideous and barbaric venture of Vladimir Putin must end in vain.

Nobody is going to break us. We're strong. We're Ukrainians.

Every weekday afternoon, I sit down with leading journalists from the Telegraph's London newsroom

and our teams reporting on the ground to bring you the latest news and analysis on the war in Ukraine.

It's April 12th, day 48.

And today I'm joined by Finnish Iranian assistant Foreign Editor Louise Moon,

our business features editor and Frances Stanley, assistant comment editor.

I started by asking Finnish for the latest news from Mariupol

where fierce Ukrainian resistance against overwhelming firepower may be reaching its endgame.

So what we're seeing is a continuation of what we've been seeing over the last few weeks

and the situation is really desperate there, but we might finally see the city actually fall in the next few days.

The bombardment has continued and what we heard yesterday was reports of a chemical attack

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