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Russian forces have seized the city of Kreminna in eastern Ukraine, a sign the ""battle for Donbas"" has well and truly begun as Russia shifts focus to claim Ukraine's industrial heartlands.

If successful, the Donbas offensive would give Russian President Vladimir Putin a much needed victory, following the failure to capture Kyiv.

A Russian triumph in the Donbas region has strip Ukraine of its industrial assets, such as mines, metals plants, and heavy-equipment manufacturing facilities.

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Serhiy Volyna, who is among Ukrainian marines defending Mariupol from Russian advances, has warned his troops are facing their last days, if not hours.

Russian forces tightened the noose around the defenders holed up on Wednesday in a mammoth steel plant that represented the last known Ukrainian stronghold in Mariupol, as a fighter apparently on the inside warned in a video plea for help: "We may have only a few days or hours left."

KYIV, Ukraine -- Russia assaulted cities and towns along a boomerang-shaped front hundreds of miles long and poured more troops into Ukraine on Tuesday in a battle for control of the country's eastern industrial heartland of coal mines and factories.

KYIV, Ukraine--Russia hurled its military might against Ukrainian cities and towns and poured more troops into the war, seeking to slice the country in two in a potentially pivotal battle for control of the eastern industrial heartland of coal mines and factories.

The Ukrainian General Staff said Wednesday that Russia was continuing to mount offensives at various locations in the east.

Russian forces continued their assault on eastern and southern Ukraine Wednesday, as officials urged remaining residents in the port city of Mariupol to evacuate.