'The heart of the war': Inside the secret talks with Putin's generals that ended the siege of Mariupol
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Russian President Vladimir Putin sat across from his defense minister in the Kremlin last April, slouched in his seat and gripping the table. They were discussing Russia's siege of the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works plant in the strategic city of Mariupol, in southeastern Ukraine.