Ukraine war: Four-year-old girl stranded in Mariupol is saved but mother is detained

A four-year-old girl stuck beneath the Azovstal steel works as Putin’s troops bombarded it has been rescued – but separated from her medic mother who has been deported into Russia, Ukrainian troops have said.

Alice, who made headlines around the world when she was filmed inside a bunker on the Azovstal complex saying she wanted to be evacuated, was brought out at the weekend as the last civilians trapped there were allowed to leave.

But the Azov battalion, which is holed up inside the steel works, now claims that she has been separated from her mother – Viktoria Obidina – who has been sent into Russia via a filtration camp.

Alice, a four-year-old girl trapped in bunkers beneath the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, was rescued during operation to take last civilians out at…