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MYKOLAIV, Ukraine — With Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy telling compatriots to brace for a fateful week, Western military officials warned Monday that Russian forces will likely resort to even more brutal tactics against civilians in a looming offensive in the country’s south and east.

The Russian-backed breakaway Ukrainian region of Donetsk will intensify its battle against Ukrainian forces, the head of the Donetsk rebel region was quoted as saying by the RIA news agency on Monday.

The death toll from a missile strike on the train station in Ukraine's Kramatorsk has risen to 57 people, Donetsk region governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said on Sunday.

Ukrainian soccer club Shakhtar Donetsk has opened a series of charity games on a government-backed “Global Tour for Peace” with a 1-0 loss at Greek league leader Olympiakos

Ukraine news from April 10: National security adviser Jake Sullivan says the US will support Ukraine with more weapons.

Zelensky says attack on crowded station shows Russia is ‘an evil without limits’

Ukraine says bombing of train station in eastern region of Donetsk killed at least 52 people, drawing global rebuke.

Ukraine said at least 50 people were killed on Friday and many more wounded in a rocket strike at a railway station packed with civilians fleeing the threat of a major Russian offensive in the country's east. As regional authorities scrambled to evacuate the vulnerable, European Union leaders visited Kyiv…