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President Biden held a secure call with allies to discuss the war and continued support for Ukraine.

The official added that the majority of Russia's ground forces have repositioned in eastern and southern Ukraine. Most are reluctant or outright refusing to sanction imports of oil and gas from the country as energy prices are already soaring. "For 2022, the Ukrainian economy is expected to contract by 35%," the IMF said in its latest economic assessment, while adding that precise measures of the economic hit from the war are impossible to know. Russian forces have reportedly captured the eastern Ukrainian city of Kreminna, its regional governor said. President Joe Biden held a secure call with allies to discuss the war and continued support for Ukraine in the White House Situation Room. He wrote on his official Telegram channel Monday that control over Kreminna had been lost, describing street fights taking place and civilians killed by Russian shelling while trying to flee. Ukraine says Russia's full offensive against its eastern Donbas region has begun, with a top official describing it as the "second phase" of the war. "They have entered the city. Ukraine's government refutes that claim, pointing to the violent bombardment of the areas carried out by Russian forces. "Kreminna is under the control of the 'Orcs' (Russians)," Gaidai said. If I go to Kyiv, it will be to make a difference," Macron said. "I will go back to Kyiv, but I will go there to bring something useful with me ... because it's obvious that I don't need to travel there to show this support.

Fighting · Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia has begun the “Battle of Donbas” in the east and a “very large part of the entire Russian army is ...

The first shipments of a new US military aid package have also arrived at Ukraine’s borders. - Humanitarian ceasefires between Ukrainian and Russian forces are not on the horizon but may be possible in a couple of weeks, UN aid chief Martin Griffiths said. - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia has begun the “Battle of Donbas” in the east and a “very large part of the entire Russian army is now focused on this offensive”.

After the failure to win the prize of Kyiv, Russia repositioned and reinforced its troops in the east - and Ukraine's leader says the expected major ...

The battle will not go in Russia's favour," he said on national television. "Russian occupational forces, and their proxy... We will defend ourselves. Russia has declared the capture of the Donbas to be its main goal in the war since its assault on the capital failed. Securing Mariupol would free up Russian troops to move elsewhere in the Donbas, deprive Ukraine of a vital port, and complete a land bridge between Russia and the Crimean peninsula, seized from Ukraine from 2014. The capturing of the town takes the Russians a step closer to their apparent goal of encircling Ukrainian troops in the region by advancing on them from the north and south, before squeezing them against territory held by Moscow's troops to the east.