Russians storm Mariupol plant, strike Odesa as US officials to visit Kyiv
Speaking in a news conference, Zelensky gave little detail about the logistics of the encounter but said he expected concrete results – “not just presents or some kind of cakes, we are expecting specific things and specific weapons.”
A three-month-old baby was among six people killed when Russia fired cruise missiles at the Black Sea port city of Odesa, officials said. Associated Press journalists also observed shelling in residential areas of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city; regional governor reported Oleh Sinehubov said three people were killed.
Servicemen of the militia from the Donetsk People’s Republic walk past damaged apartment buildings near the Mariupol plant.While British officials said the Russians hadn’t gained significant new ground, Ukrainian officials announced a nationwide curfew ahead of Easter Sunday, a sign of the war’s disruption and threat to the entire country.
An adviser to Ukraine’s presidential office, Oleksiy Arestovich, said during a Saturday briefing that Russian forces had resumed air strikes on the Azovstal plant and were trying to storm it. A direct attempt to take the plant would represent a reversal from an order Russian President Vladimir Putin gave two days earlier.
If authentic, it would be the first video testimony of what life has been like for civilians still trapped in Mariupol’s underground bunkers. The video showed soldiers giving sweets to children who respond with fist-bumps.One young girl says she and her relatives “haven’t seen neither the sky, nor the sun” since they left home on February 27.
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