Live updates: Russian forces take strategic city as Kyiv, other areas face fierce bombardment
MUKACHEVO, Ukraine — Russian troops advanced on Saturday into the eastern outskirts of Mariupol, the strategic port on Ukraine’s southern coast, while several cities across the country, from Kyiv, the capital, to Mykolaiv, another key city on the Black Sea, continued to face withering bombardment.
As Russia intensified its assault, a top Kremlin diplomat warned the United States that Russia could target Ukrainian convoys carrying Western weapons. The warning from Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov raises the stakes as the Biden administrationThe Ukrainian Defense Ministry said Saturday that Russian forces were advancing on Mariupol after a week-long siege.
Meanwhile, the humanitarian disaster is mounting, with Ukrainian officials accusing Russia of striking a hospital in Mykolaiv and a mosque in Mariupol. After local officials in Poland, where 1.5 million refugees from Ukraine have fled, warned that they were struggling to cope with the arrivals,Here’s what to knowhave been killed and at least 100 wounded in the fighting as of Saturday, according to the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office.
The Biden administration, under pressure to expand the range of weapons available to Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, isthe movement of more sophisticated air-defense systems and other material into the war zone, U.S. officials said Friday. Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen said Friday that the Biden administration is considering pausing the gas tax — one of many “possible interventions” — to offer Americans some relief from higher fuel prices.
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