Moscow's forces on Monday pounded targets across the country, killing at least seven people in the far western city of Lviv.
NOVODRUZHESK - Russia has launched a major offensive into eastern Ukraine, authorities in Kyiv said, opening a new phase of its invasion after being thwarted in efforts to capture the capital.
But despite the desperate situation in the city, a senior US Defence Department official said Mariupol "is still contested". But "today we understood clearly that we don't have any safe places in Ukraine. It's very dangerous," a bank employee who gave her name as Natalia told AFP after the strikes.Among the sites struck was a depot near Lviv that Moscow said held weapons recently delivered to Ukraine from the United States and Europe.
But Ukrainian presidential advisor Oleksiy Arestovich said Russian forces had not conquered the city."We are bombed everywhere. It's a miracle that we're still alive," said Nadya, 65, her voice trembling."There's no more water, electricity, nothing. We've got no more money, no more petrol - we can't leave."
The Mariupol city council said Monday there are over 1,000 civilians trapped in shelters under the Azovstal steel plant, where Ukrainian forces are waging a desperate last stand against the Russians.President Vladimir Putin has said he launched the military operation on February 24 to save Russian speakers in Ukraine from a "genocide" carried out by a "neo-Nazi" regime.
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