With its grip tightened along Ukraine's southern coast, Russia is redoubling its assault on the eastern industrial Donbas region.
President Biden met Thursday with the leaders of Finland and Sweden after both nations formally applied to join NATO this week.
Valeriy Zaluzhny, the commander in chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, told journalists that his troops have so far managed to keep the key Black Sea port of Mykolaiv, west of Crimea, under Ukrainian control. The International Red Cross says it has registered as prisoners of war hundreds of troops evacuated from the massive Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, where the city’s defenders made a long and bloody final stand.Russia scores its first major win with the takeover of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol. But will it change the course of the war?
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