Ukrainian leaders accused Russia of seizing 15 rescue workers and drivers from a humanitarian convoy trying to get food and supplies into Mariupol.
Russian ships in Sea of Azov have added to shelling of Mariupol, says U.S. defence officialFirefighters gather amid debris in the area of a research institute, part of Ukraine's National Academy of Science, after a strike by drones that killed at least one in northwestern Kyiv on Tuesday.
The convoy's attempt to deliver assistance came as Russian navy vessels joined in what have been weeks of Russian air and land strikes into Mariupol, U.S. officials said. Biden is traveling to Brussels and Poland, which has received more than two million Ukrainian refugees since the Feb. 24 invasion. He is expected to seek continued unity among Western allies and to announce more sanctions in a punishing series of economic and financial penalties on Russia.
In Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, explosions and bursts of gunfire shook the city, and heavy artillery fire could be heard from the northwest, where Russia has sought to encircle and capture several of the capital's suburbs. Russia's far stronger, bigger military has many Western military experts warning against overconfidence in Ukraine's long-term odds. Russia's practice in past wars in Chechnya and Syria has been to grind down resistance with strikes that flattened cities, killed countless civilians and sent millions fleeing.
The invasion has driven more than 10 million people from their homes, almost a quarter of Ukraine's population, according to the United Nations.
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