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KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Determined to seize control of Ukraine’s industrial heartland, Russia on Tuesday intensified its assaults across the country’s east while keeping up the bombardment of Ukrainian forces in the besieged southern port of Mariupol.

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Determined to seize control of Ukraine’s industrial heartland, Russia on Tuesday intensified its assaults across the country’s east, and again gave a fruitless surrender ultimatum to Ukrainian forces in the besieged southern port of Mariupol.

Officers in Donetsk say spies pass on coordinates or photographs of targets via Telegram in exchange for cash

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Ukrainian officials said Monday that Russia began its long-anticipated assault to seize control of their country’s eastern industrial heartland, launching a ground assault along a nearly 300-mile front while pounding the nation, including the western city of Lviv, with a deadly barrage of missile strikes.

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Ukraine officials said Monday that Russia began its long-anticipated assault to seize control of their country’s eastern industrial heartland, launching a ground assault along a nearly 300-mile front while pounding the nation, including the western city of Lviv, with a deadly barrage of missile strikes.

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — It came at exactly 3 a.m. Monday: a flash of light streaking over the city’s darkened streets, then the massive blast, shaking walls, rattling windows and waking those few who had managed an already-troubled sleep.

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that Russia has launched its long-anticipated assault to seize control of Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's chief of staff warns "the second phase of the war has started", amid Russian bombardments against cities across the country.

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Missile strikes on Monday killed seven people in Lviv, a western Ukrainian city once considered a relative safe haven, local officials said, as Russian forces pressed ahead with their drive to seize the strategic southern port city of Mariupol, where Ukraine has vowed that desperate defenders would…

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Missile strikes on Monday killed seven people in Lviv, a western Ukrainian city once considered a relative safe haven, local officials said, as Russian forces pressed ahead with their drive to seize the strategic southern port city of Mariupol, where Ukraine has vowed that desperate defenders would…

Support for Putin’s actions has fallen dramatically across the Donbas region his forces are expected to put under new attack