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       Missiles hit apartment block in Ukraine port city of Odesa

       Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has threatened to abandon peace talks over Moscow’s attempts to crush the last pocket of resistance in Mariupol.

       The Russian attack on the Azovstal steel plants comes just days after Vladimir Putin said his troops would not storm the site, where hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians are holed up.

       “If our men are killed in Mariupol, Ukraine will withdraw from any negotiation process,” Mr Zelensky said, ahead of a meeting with US secretary of state Antony Blinken and the US secretary of defence Lloyd Austin in Kyiv.

       Speaking in a news conference, Mr Zelensky gave little detail about the meeting but said he expected concrete results — “not just presents or some kind of cakes, we are expecting specific things and specific weapons”.

       Earlier Russia pounded several cities in southern and eastern Ukraine, killing a three-month-old baby along with eight others in the Black seaport city of Odesa.

       “The war started when this baby was one month old. Can you imagine what is happening?” Mr Zelensky said.

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       Key points Zelensky threatens to abandon peace talk with Moscow if Mariupol soldiers killed Top US officials to visit Kyiv on Sunday Russian forces attempt to storm Azovstal steel plant Eight people reportedly killed in Russian attacks in Luhansk President Zelensky thanks UK for training Ukrainian military on home soil

       Show latest update 1650800124 How two months of war has transformed Ukraine

       “There were bits of corpses all over the ground,” said Ruslan, 39, who escaped the besieged city of Mariupol with his wife and daughter to Zaporizhia.

       My colleague Bel Trew takes a look at how Ukraine has been changed forever by the war.

       A tragedy in every town: How two months of war has transformed Ukraine forever International correspondent Bel Trew has spent weeks covering the war in Ukraine. Here, she recounts some of the most indelible scenes from her time in the country

       Aisha Rimi 24 April 2022 12:35

       1650797718 Seven churches destroyed by Russia in Luhansk

       As Orthodox Christians celebrated Easter, the governor of Ukraine’s Luhansk said seven of the region’s churches had been “mutilated by Russian artillery”.

       “Usually we would come to our churches with Easter baskets. But now this is impossible,” Serhiy Gaidai said.

       The Independent is unable to independently verify his report.

       Rory Sullivan 24 April 2022 11:55

       1650796338 Children in UK fear Putin’s deadly war in Ukraine

       “Do you think they are going to come and kill me?” a seven-year-old asked his British-Ukrainian father shortly after the war with Russia broke out.

       My colleague Maryam Zakir-Hussain takes a look at how children in the UK have reacted to the conflict:

       Seven year-old boy’s heartbreaking question to his father when Russia invaded Ukraine One British-Ukrainian mother describes her daughters crying because classmates laughed at bombs falling on Ukraine

       Rory Sullivan 24 April 2022 11:32

       1650795018 Ukraine will prevail, says Zelensky on Orthodox Easter

       Speaking from the 1,000-year-old Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv on Orthodox Easter, Ukraine’s president Zelenskiy said his country would overcome the Russian invasion.

       “Today, we still believe in the new victory of Ukraine and we are all convinced that we will not be destroyed by any horde or wickedness,” he said.

       “We are overcoming dark times and on this day I - and most of us - are not in bright clothes, but we are fighting for a luminous idea.”

       Rory Sullivan 24 April 2022 11:10

       1650793698 Russian shelling kills two children in Donetsk, says governor

       Two Ukrainian children have been killed by Russian shelling in Donetsk, the region’s governor has said.

       Pavlo Kyrylenko said a 5-year-old and a 14-year-old girl had died in Ocheretynsk when their home was destroyed on Sunday.

       He urged civilians to flee the fighting.

       Rory Sullivan 24 April 2022 10:48

       1650792558 Russia claims to have struck Ukrainian weapons depots overnight

       Russian troops targeted nine Ukrainian military targets overnight, including four weapons depots in the Kharkiv region, the Kremlin has said.

       It also claimed to have hit an explosives-making facility in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

       Rory Sullivan 24 April 2022 10:29

       1650791118 Total of 21,800 Russian troops dead, claims Ukraine

       The Ukrainian army has claimed that 21,800 Russian soldiers have died in the first eight weeks of the conflict.

       If accurate, the Russian death toll is far higher than it was during the decade-long Soviet-Afghan war.

       Rory Sullivan 24 April 2022 10:05

       1650789918 Russia must agree to ‘real Easter truce’, says Ukraine

       Ukrainian presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak has urged Russia to agree to a “real Easter truce” and an immediate humanitarian corridor from Mariupol.

       “Russia is continuously attacking the Mariupol Azovstal. The place where our civilians and military are located, is shelled with heavy air bombs and artillery,” he tweeted.

       Mr Podolyak added that the Kremlin needed to think “about the remnants of its reputation”.

       Rory Sullivan 24 April 2022 09:45

       1650788538 Ukrainians celebrate Easter amid war

       Across Ukraine, thousands of people are celebrating Orthodox Easter today.

       “We’ll celebrate Easter no matter what, no matter much horror,” said 68-year-old Kateryna Lazarenko, who lives in a village near the northern city of Chernihiv.

       A priest blesses people at an Easter service in Lviv on 24 April

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       Rory Sullivan 24 April 2022 09:22

       1650787218 Russia deploys battlefield missile launchers close to Ukraine border, says Ukrainian army

       Russia has deployed battlefield missile launches to within 40 miles of the Ukrainian border and has increased troop numbers in the border region of Belgorod, Ukraine’s army has said.

       “According to available information, Iskander-M launchers have been deployed 60 km from the border with Ukraine,” it said on Sunday.

       “Then enemy has increased the number of troops in the Belgorod region by transferring and concentrating additional units,” the army added.

       The report has yet to be independently verified.

       Rory Sullivan 24 April 2022 09:00

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