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Ukraine’s General Staff says Russia is increasing the pace of its offensive in the east of the country

Russian forces have shifted their attention to the east of Ukraine with many predicting a brutal and bloody onslaught

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will face calls for more lethal aid as he meets with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Ukraine later today. Elsewhere, Russian missile strikes on the port of Odesa killed five, including a baby, and Russia stepped up its assault on the Azovstal steel plant.

Food and water running out in Azovstal stronghold as Ukraine says mass graves seen on satellite near city could hold 9,000 civilian dead

Russian troops are pressing their offensive in the eastern Donbas region in an attempt to fully seize Ukraine's industrial heartland but have made little headway as fierce Ukrainian counterattacks have slowed their efforts, Ukrainian and British officials said Saturday. Russia continues to fight for full control of the Donetsk and…

All the Ukrainian-controlled cities in the eastern region of Luhansk were constantly being shelled by Russian forces on Saturday and the barrage was intensifying, the region's governor Serhiy Haidai said on television.

Mariupol's fall is getting closer after Putin boasted about missile test

Russian forces continue the offensive in eastern Ukraine with the goal of establishing full control over the Donetsk and Luhansk regions

New Russian attacks are pounding the last Ukrainian stronghold in the besieged city of Mariupol

Russia ratcheted up its battle for control of Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland, intensifying assaults on cities and towns along a front hundreds of miles long in what officials on both sides described as a new phase of the war. After a Russian push to the capital failed to overrun the…