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Focussing on east ukraine. but in the last 24 hours there've been artillery bombardments and missile strikes in lviv in the far west of ukraine, in the capital kyiv, in the city of kharkiv in the north: and the southern city of mykolaiv, near the port of 0desa. at least seven people died in the lviv strikes. towns in the south and east of ukraine — close to the donbas area, and inland from the sea of azov were also hit. they're areas which have seen some of the fiercest fighting. 0ur correspondentjenny hill gave us this update from moscow. this has come from the russian ministry of defence. ...

In the lviv strikes. towns in the south and east of ukraine — close to the donbas area, and inland from the sea of azov — were also hit. they're areas which have seen some of the fiercest fighting. let's hear now from mykolaiv, a city in southern ukraine, which, according to local officials, has suffered continuous rocket attacks since sunday morning. some people have fled but many elderly residents have been left to fend for themselves since they can t or won t leave. 0ur correspondent catherine byaruhanga went to the neighbourhood of kulbakino to visit those left behind. what's left of h...

But the u.s. official says that might only last a few days. meantime, ukrainian officials say russia has responded to the sinking of its warship by becoming increasingly hostile in its attacks on the south. cnn's ben wedeman is in eastern ukraine. tell us what you're seeing there. >> reporter: well, what we're seeing is a constant intensification of the russian bombardment on this area, the donbas area, in the far east of the country. today we were once again in the city which is right smack dab up against russian lines, it's the easternmost city in ukraine under government control. what we ...

Going to intensify, it is only going to get worse as russia really prepares this so-called second offensive. it's a three-pronged attack they are planning to push down from the north, in from the east and also up from the south. analysts believe the ultimate goal is to try to essentially trap ukrainian forces in this pocket in the donbas area, but it is important to emphasize that ukrainian forces have been putting up a very tough fight and if you look at what happened in the offense at, the failed offensive to try to take kyiv, you can be sure that this is going to take quite some time. it ma...

Reasons, number one, exactly as you point out, the russians already have not only just been there since the invasion but in some cases like in the donbas area, they've been there for years. they know the territory, they know the terrain, it's not as heavily populated. there's not major population centers there. so it's kind of easier for fighting, in some ways, from a russian perspective. so it is, has the potential to be frankly more advantages to the russians than what we've seen. in addition to that, as opposed to after the invasion where they had these three major axes, it's going to be a ...