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Ukraine fends off Russian attacks as Mariupol, Odesa take pounding. Top US officials to arrive

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Russian and Ukrainian troops faced off Saturday along a 300-mile battlefront in the country’s east, where Ukraine said it beat back numerous attacks but faced renewed shelling in the crippled city of Mariupol, the Black Sea port of Odesa and beyond.

Los Angeles Times

Zelenskyy calls again for meeting with Putin ‘to end the war’

Ukraine president ‘not afraid to meet’ with Russia’s Putin if it would lead to a peace deal between the two countries.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine-Russia war: Russia accused of conscripting Ukrainian civilians to join its army in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia

Ukrainian officials have accused Russia of conscripting civilians in the Russian-controlled territories of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, in what would be a breach of international law.

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Ukraine: Three-month-old baby among five killed in Russian Missile attack on Odesa

Russia has also attacked a steel plant where around 1,000 civilians are sheltering

Wales Online

Ukraine latest: Blinken to visit Kyiv; baby killed in Odesa missile strikes; Azovstal under attack again; new evacuation attempt fails in Mariupol

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.

ABC News

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events on day 59

As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 59th day, we take a look at the main developments.

Al Jazeera

Top US Diplomat, Defense Secretary to Visit to Kyiv on Sunday, Says Zelenskiy

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will travel to Kyiv on Sunday and hold talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the Ukrainian leader said on Saturday. He told a news conference in Kyiv that he would discuss the kinds of weapons that Ukraine needs…

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The City of Mary: A New Song About the Defense of Mariupol'

The city of Mariupol', which has apparently been almost entirely destroyed by the Russians, but in which the battle seems to still be raging, is on the Azov Sea; "Mariupol'" means "City of Mary." (According to Wikipedia, for some the city was named after a Greek settlement in Crimea, which…

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Ukraine president threatens to quit talks if Russia holds 'pseudo-referendums' in occupied areas

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Kyiv would quit talks with Moscow if Russia destroys Ukraine's people in the city of Mariupol and holds "pseudo-referendums" to create "pseudo-republics" in Russian-occupied areas.

Reuters

'I want to see the sun' begs child in Mariupol steel works

Women and children sheltering in a giant steel works in Mariupol that is the last holdout of Ukrainian defenders of the southern port city, said in a video released on Saturday they are desperate to get out and are running out of food.

Reuters

Ukraine largely fends off Russian attacks in the east, says Mariupol remains contested

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Russian and Ukrainian troops faced off Saturday along a 300-mile battlefront in the country’s east, where the Ukrainian military said its forces had beaten back more than half a dozen separate attacks. But punishing shellfire forced defenders to regroup in some areas.

Los Angeles Times

In Mariupol, Putin now rules a wasteland pitted with mass graves

The inevitable end to the brutal siege shows Russia’s logistical strengths – but also why invasion is ultimately so futile

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine accuses Russia of thwarting new evacuation push from Mariupol

A new attempt to evacuate Ukrainian civilians from war-torn Mariupol failed on Saturday, an aide to the city's mayor said on his Telegram channel, blaming Russian forces.

Reuters

Women and children beg for help in video from besieged Mariupol steel factory

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

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The Independent UK

Russia attacks Mariupol steel plant days after Putin ordered troops not to storm it, says Ukraine

Thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians are sheltering in the besieged Azovstal steelworks

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukraine: Russians Try to Storm Mariupol Plant, Strike Odesa

Russian forces in Ukraine tried to storm a steel plant housing soldiers and civilians in the southern city of Mariupol on Saturday while attempting to crush the last corner of resistance in a place of deep symbolic and strategic value to Moscow, Ukrainian officials said. The reported assault on the…

Evening Standard

Russia resumes attack on Mariupol’s Azovstal plant, according to Zelensky aide, as video ‘shows children sheltering inside’

A video has been released by the Azov regiment of Ukraine’s National Guard, some of whom are holed up in the Azovstal plant, showing women and children sheltering underground

Reuters

Russia has resumed offensive against Ukrainian forces in Mariupol's Azovstal -Ukrainian official

Russian forces have resumed air strikes on and are trying to storm the Azovstal steel works where Ukraine's remaining forces in Mariupol are holding out, Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said on Saturday.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukrainian Counterattacks Slowing Russian Offensive in East

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…

Evening Standard

Satellite images appear to show second mass grave near Mariupol

The city council posted a satellite photo showing what it said was a mass grave stretching 45 metres by 25 metres

Reuters

Russia's invasion of Ukraine enters third month

Russia heads into the third month of its invasion of Ukraine on Sunday with no end in sight to fighting that has killed thousands, uprooted millions and reduced cities to rubble.

Radio France Internationale

Hopes fade for truce over Orthodox Easter as Russian campaign continues

Hopes for a weekend truce in Ukraine to celebrate the Orthodox Easter faded with talks between Moscow and Kyiv stalled as Russia said it aimed to take full control over the east and south of its neighbour.

Evening Standard

Russia has made ‘no major gains’ in past 24 hours as Ukraine counterattacks, says UK

Russian air and maritime forces have failed to establish control and heavy fighting is continuing in Mariupol, the MoD said

The Guardian - AU

Zelenskiy says peace talks will be suspended if Mariupol defenders killed – as it happened

Ukraine’s ministry of defence says its forces carried out an attack on a Russian command near Kherson

The Independent UK

Live updates | Ukraine: Russian offensive continues in east

The Ukraine military’s general staff says that Russian forces continue their “offensive operations” in eastern Ukraine with the goal of defeating Ukrainian forces, establishing full control over the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and securing a land route between these territories and the occupied Crimea

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