'Citizens of Russia', Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said during his daily video address. 'How does your blockade of Mariupol differ from the blockade of Leningrad during the years of the second world war?'
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His comments come after a Russian plane dropped a bomb on a theatre where civilians were sheltering in the besieged city. On the same day in Chernihiv, 10 people were killed while waiting in line to buy bread. Zelenskiy added that Russia had become a 'terrorist state'. 

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