Russian forces on Saturday continued their offensive on key towns in southern Ukraine, where fire targeted civilian areas. Surrounded on all fronts, except in the south, Kyiv holds firm after 17 days of war.
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Kyiv increasingly surrounded
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Russian strikes continued to rain down on the beleaguered port city of Mariupol on Saturday. In Mykolaiv, in the southwest, the shooting did not stop overnight from Friday to Saturday, hitting an oncology center and an eye hospital, according to Agence France-Presse.
Strikes and explosions
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The Ukrainian authorities reported Saturday the death of seven civilians, including a child, killed the day before by the Russian army, while they tried to evacuate Kyiv by a humanitarian corridor.
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About 1,300 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since the start of the war in Ukraine, according to the first official count of the Ukrainian government, unveiled on Saturday.
With Agence France-Presse, Associated Press and The New York Times