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Children are buried in trenches, residents scrounge for food and water and hospitals get bombed as Russian troops squeeze the life out of a Ukrainian city
Families have been told to leave their dead in the streets because it’s too dangerous to hold funerals. This southern seaport of 430,000 has become a symbol of Russia President Vladimir Putin’s drive to crush democratic Ukraine and also of a fierce resistance on the ground.
Serious gaps between the sides remain however, as Ukrainian leader repeats plea for no-fly zone ahead of planned speech to Congress; capital put under 35-hour curfew