Ukrainian authorities say Russia has shifted a dozen crack units from the shattered port of Mariupol to eastern Ukraine and is pounding away at cities across the region.
to eastern Ukraine and pounded away at cities across the region, Ukrainian authorities said Friday, as the two sides hurtled toward what could be an epic battle for control of the country’s industrial heartland.
"Every day they drop several bombs on Azovstal," said Petro Andryushchenko, an adviser to Mariupol’s mayor. "Fighting, shelling, bombing do not stop." "It will now be difficult for our forces, because our guys in Mariupol were taking on themselves. It is their courage and feat," he said. Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said no humanitarian corridors for civilian evacuations would be open in Ukraine on Friday because it was too dangerous. She urged civilians to "be patient" and "hang in there."
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