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Russia on Tuesday pushed into Eastern Ukraine as it bombed several cities and pressed in more troops. Cities of Kharkiv and Kramatorsk and areas around Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro west in Donbas region were targeted by the Russians. Control over the Donbas region would slice Ukraine into two and fulfil the current objective of the Russian invasion.
Updated: 20 Apr 2022 2:18 pm
An injured man smokes following a Russian bombing of a factory in Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine. Russian forces attacked along a broad front in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday as part of a full-scale ground offensive to take control of the country’s eastern industrial heartland in what Ukrainian officials called a “new phase of the war.”
Local civilians walk past a tank destroyed during heavy fighting in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine. Taking Mariupol would deprive Ukraine of a vital port and complete a land bridge between Russia and the Crimean Peninsula, seized from Ukraine from 2014.
A member of security forces gives first aid to an injured man following a Russian bombing of a factory in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, killing at least one person and injuring three others. Russian forces attacked along a broad front in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday as part of a full-scale ground offensive to take control of the country’s eastern industrial heartland in what Ukrainian officials called a “new phase of the war.”
A member of security forces gives first aid to an injured man following a Russian bombing of a factory in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, killing at least one person and injuring three others. Russian forces attacked along a broad front in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday as part of a full-scale ground offensive to take control of the country’s eastern industrial heartland in what Ukrainian officials called a “new phase of the war.”
The body of a man is covered by a tarp from a damaged truck following a Russian bombing of a factory in Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine. Russian forces attacked along a broad front in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday as part of a full-scale ground offensive to take control of the country’s eastern industrial heartland in what Ukrainian officials called a “new phase of the war.”
Vera Ptitsyna, 63, right, stands with her daughter Olena, 45, as she mourns on her husband’s grave, Yuriy Ptitsyn, 74, who died due to lack of medical care during the monthlong Russian occupation of the town, during his funeral in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv.
Three dug graves are ready for the next funerals at the cemetery in Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine
Sergei, 11, waits his turn to receive donated food during an aid humanitarian distribution in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv. Citizens of Bucha are still without electricity, water and gas after more than 44 days since the Russian invasion began.
A woman walks next to the body of a man killed during a Russian bombardment at a residential neighborhood in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Russia ratcheted up its battle for control of Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland on Tuesday, 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.
Interior ministry sappers collect explosives in a hole to detonate them near a mine field after recent battles at the village of Moshchun close to Kyiv, Ukraine.
A police officer checks the body of a woman killed during a Russian bombardment at a residential neighborhood in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Russia ratcheted up its battle for control of Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland on Tuesday, 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.
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