Russia strikes Ukraine’s big cities, bears down on Mariupol

By The Associated Press

Nadiya Trubchaninova, 70, cries while holding the coffin of her son Vadym, 48, who was killed by Russian soldiers last March 30 in Bucha, during his funeral in the cemetery of Mykulychi, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 16, 2022.

Russian forces renewed missile strikes on Kyiv and intensified shelling of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, in preparation for what is expected to be a full-scale Russian assault in the east.

(Image credit: Rodrigo Abd/AP)

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