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There was no immediate word on casualties from the reported strike on the art school situated in the embattled port city of Mariupol.

Ukraine’s president says Russia is blockading his country’s largest cities to starve them into submission. But Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned on Saturday that the strategy will fail and the war will weigh on Russia for generations.

"This is a terrible price of war that Ukraine is paying today," Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said as his city paid tribute to the youngest victims of violence.

Russian forces are pressing their assault Ukrainian cities, striking on the outskirts of the capital Kyiv and the western city of Lviv, as world leaders push for an investigation of the Kremlin’s repeat attacks on civilian targets.

Media coverage of Griner's arrest on alleged drug charges in Russia has remained somewhat muted. Some say it's because of her skin color, but others say it's part of a bigger strategy to get her home.

It's been three weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, and while many thought that it would be over quickly, Ukraine is continuing to fend Russia off. Now, some analysts think Ukraine could win the war.

The Russian president's references to "cleansing" of "scum and traitors" evoked terrifying memories of the mass arrests of the Stalin era, when repression was justified for "cleansing" Soviet society.

Jimmy Hill, 68, became stranded in Chernihiv, a city north of Kyiv, after taking his partner there for medical treatment.

A glimmer of good news has emerged in Mariupol, where people are being pulled out of a theater that was being used as a shelter.

Russian forces largely bogged down outside major cities in Ukraine have turned to shelling them from a distance, including dozens of confirmed attacks on health facilities during the war that on Thursday entered its fourth week.