US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin were set to visit Kyiv on Sunday to discuss Ukraine’s call for more powerful weapons, two months after Russia’s invasion began.
Men inspect destroyed cars in the aftermath of a military strike on a building, amid Russia's invasion, in Odesa, Ukraine, April 24, 2022. REUTERS/Igor TkachenkoMen inspect destroyed cars in the aftermath of a military strike on a building, amid Russia's invasion, in Odesa, Ukraine, April 24, 2022. REUTERS/Igor Tkachenko
Serhiy Gaidai, governor of the eastern Luhansk region, said Easter celebrations had been shattered by the conflict. He said with seven churches in his region had been “mutilated by Russian artillery” in the conflict. Reuters could not independently verify his report. Moscow, which describes its actions in Ukraine as a “special military operation”, denies targeting civilians and rejects what Ukraine says is evidence of atrocities, saying Kyiv staged them to undermine peace talks.
Capturing Mariupol, the site of biggest battle of the conflict, would link up pro-Russian separatists who control parts of the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk that make up the Donbas with the southern Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which Moscow seized in 2014. Ukraine said Russian forces were continuing their offensive in east Ukraine to try to establish full control over Donetsk and Luhansk with attacks on military and civilian sites.
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