Ukraine braces for all-out Russian assault in the east as war enters sixth week

April 02, 2022

An apartment building that was hit by a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine. Russian troops are not conducting a withdrawal but facing "the consequences of exile" at the hands of Ukrainian fighters, he said. In the east, Ukrainian military leaders said they were preparing for an all-out assault by Russian forces. A senior defense official confirmed on Thursday that Russian troops had drawn down in the area, which they had taken over in the first few days of the war. An International Committee of the Red Cross warehouse in Mariupol, Ukraine, appears to have suffered damage from shelling Monday.