Russians know they haven’t taken Mariupol is they’re continuing to bomb Mariupol. Such a statement made a Press Secretary of Pentagon.

“I don’t have an update for you. I don’t think the numbers have appreciably changed. But I would let the Ukrainians speak to their force levels in any one location. We do assess that they are still there. They are still resisting. And the proof of that that the Russians know they haven’t taken Mariupol is they’re continuing to bomb Mariupol.

And they still have force levels outside Mariupol themselves and in the city”, - said”, - John Kirby.