Missile strikes kill 7 people in Lviv as Russia steps up bombardment. Mayor of Lviv says 3-year-old among 11 injured. The western Ukrainian city has been relatively safe during the Russian invasion.
Vereshchuk said Russia could be prosecuted for war crimes over its refusal to allow civilians to leave Mariupol.
"We are doing everything to ensure the defence" of Eastern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly address to the nation on Sunday. The official also said that four U.S. cargo flights arrived in Europe on Sunday with an initial delivery of weapons and other materials for Ukraine as part of a $800-million package announced by Washington last week. And training of Ukrainian personnel on U.S. 155 mm howitzers is set to begin in the next several days.
The city has been reduced to rubble in the siege, but a few thousand fighters, by Russia's estimate, are holding on to the giant, 11-square-kilometre Azovstal steel mill.Ukrainian holdout in Mariupol buys time, says retired U.S. army generalThe longer Ukrainian soldiers can hold out in Mariupol, the more time they buy for the Donbas, says retired U.S. army general Peter Zwack.
People walk past the turret of a destroyed tank in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine, on Sunday. A man surveys the damage after a Russian artillery strike hit a residential building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Monday.
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