Moscow, he said, was deploying “almost everyone and everything that is capable of fighting.”įood banks across the state are seeing an influx of new faces as spikes in the cost of groceries and gas have some Californians seeking help for the first time. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address to the nation that nearly all of Russia’s combat-ready forces were “concentrated on the territory of our state” and just outside its borders. Russia tightened its grip around Ukraine’s last stronghold in the besieged port of Mariupol, whose desperate defenders, holed up in underground shelters beneath a massive steel plant, pleaded for international help, declaring that they were “probably facing our last days, if not hours.”Īlong hundreds of miles of a scythe-shaped battlefront in Ukraine’s east, the din of Russian bombardment echoed in cities and towns, while Moscow’s ground forces made a series of what Ukrainian military officials described as probing attacks that did not yield any substantial new territorial gains. Ultimatum ignored in Mariupol as attacks intensify in east Ukraine Hello, it’s Thursday, April 21, and here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today: TOP STORIES By Elvia Limón, Laura Blasey and Amy Hubbard
