Ukraine battered again; Zelenskyy says US officials to visit
By DAVID KEYTON and YESICA FISCH
Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian presidential office advisor says Russian forces have tried to storm a steel plant that is the last defense stronghold in the strategic port city of Mariupol. And Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he will meet Sunday in Kyiv with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. The White House declined to comment. The reported steel mill assault came after the Kremlin claimed its military seized the rest of Mariupol. Ukrainian officials reported that cruise missiles hit the port city of Odesa, killing eight people. The Ukrainian military says two generals were killed when it destroyed a Russian command post in the southern city of Kherson.
