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Russia pounds Ukraine's vital port of Odesa, Mariupol plant


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ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Russia pounded away at Ukraine’s vital southern port of Odesa, Ukrainian officials said Tuesday, as they announced they found the bodies of 44 civilians in the rubble of a building in the northeast that was destroyed weeks ago.Meanwhile, a Ukrainian official said that at least 100 civilians remain trapped at a steel mill in the besieged city of Mariupol, where Ukrainian fighters are making a last stand.The 44 bodies were found in a five-story building that collapsed in March in Izyum, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) from the city of Kharkiv, which has been under sustained Russian attack since the beginning of the war in late February.“This is another horrible war crime of the Russian occupiers against the civilian population!” said Oleh Synehubov, the head of the regional administration, in a social media message announcing the deaths.Izyum lies on a key route to the eastern industrial region of the Donbas, now the focus of Russia’s war in Ukraine. At one point, Ukrainian and Russian authorities had said all civilians had left the plant.Andryushchenko said that the Russian forces continue to pound the plant with heavy weaponry and “attempts to storm (the plant) from the land remain unsuccessful.”The Ukrainian military warned Tuesday that Russia could target the country’s chemical industries. Each unit has roughly 1,000 troops, according to the Pentagon.The official said that overall, the Russian effort in the Donbas hasn’t achieved any significant progress in recent days and continues to face stiff resistance from Ukrainian forces.Satellite photos showed intense fires in Russian-held territory in southern Ukraine on Monday.

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