Mariupol

American  

[mar-ee-oo-puhl, muh-ryi-oo-puhl] / ˌmær iˈu pəl, mə ryɪˈu pəl /

noun

1. a city in SE Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov.

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Mariupol British  

/ məriˈupəlj /

noun

1. Former name (1948–91): Zhdanov.  a port in SE Ukraine, on an estuary leading to the Sea of Azov. Pop: 485 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

“We go for walks around the city, because there’s no point sitting home in the dark,” said Bakhtar, a 45-year-old who recently moved to Odesa from Russian-occupied Mariupol, adding that she stocked up on candles and flashlights for the holidays.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Life under occupation was also very hard,” she said, adding that there were often issues with water and electricity in occupied Mariupol.

From The Wall Street Journal

Dudnyk, 50, who works for the Ukrainian NGO "Voices of Children", also carries her own wounds -- fleeing from her hometown Mariupol, which was occupied by the Russian army after a brutal siege.

From Barron's

Andriivka is Chernov's latest production after his film from besieged Mariupol won an Oscar.

From BBC

The Associated Press correspondent’s follow-up to his harrowing, Oscar-winning “20 Days in Mariupol,” which rendered the first weeks of Russia’s invasion inside a city under siege, is another intimate perspective on his country’s devastation.

From Los Angeles Times