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Serhii, father of teenager Iliya, cries on his son's lifeless body lying on a stretcher at a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
The lifeless body of teenager Ilya, fatally wounded by shelling, Iies on a stretcher at a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Russian forces have seized a strategic Ukrainian seaport and besieged another. Those moves are part of efforts to cut the country off from its coastline even as Moscow said Thursday it was ready for talks to end the fighting. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A shoe covered in blood lies on the floor at an emergency surgery in a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Russian forces have seized a strategic Ukrainian seaport and besieged another. Those moves are part of efforts to cut the country off from its coastline even as Moscow said Thursday it was ready for talks to end the fighting. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Teenager Artyom, 15, wounded by shelling, lies in a car waiting to be moved to a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Russian forces have seized a strategic Ukrainian seaport and besieged another. Those moves are part of efforts to cut the country off from its coastline even as Moscow said Thursday it was ready for talks to end the fighting. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Serhii, father of teenager Iliya, cries on his son's lifeless body lying on a stretcher at a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

The surgeons leaving the operating room don't make eye contact. One of them has his hands in the air. Another looks down. The father at the doorway grabs his forehead, tears welling, and turns away, a wail about to escape his throat.

Serhii entered the room and found his son, Iliya, draped in a blood-stained sheet.

Serhii convulses with grief as he hugs Iliya's lifeless head.

Iliya was playing soccer in Mariupol when she was killed. There is a soccer field in the Azov Sea city.

Medics stood in a parking lot as shelling illuminated the skies in Mariupol, with fighting continuing on the city outskirts. The battle knocked out most phone services in the city and raised the prospect of food and water shortages.

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Medics didn't know where to take the wounded. One crew found a wounded woman who was put on a stretcher, walked down the stairs and was put into an ambulance.

It would be a huge blow to Ukraine's economy if it were to be cut off. It would allow Russia to build a land corridor to the peninsula.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces have launched hundreds of missiles and artillery attacks on cities and other sites around the country and made significant gains in the south over the past few days.

The first major city to fall since the invasion began was the southern city of Kherson, a vital Black Sea port of 280,000, which was captured by the Russians.

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