Saturday 23 April 2022 – Russia launched missile strikes at the southwestern port city of Odesa, killing at least eight people, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Heavy fighting also continues in eastern Ukraine. An evacuation corridor from the besieged southern city of Mariupol was “thwarted” by Russian forces on Saturday, according to a Ukrainian official. Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk earlier warned that Russian troops might open a “parallel corridor” to take residents to territories they control. Zelensky said that he will be meeting with the US secretary of state and defense secretary on Sunday in Kyiv. Russia revealed the goal of its invasion is to take “full control” of southern Ukraine as well as the eastern Donbas region and to establish a land corridor connecting Russia to Crimea, the peninsula it annexed in 2014.
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