Russia-Ukraine live updates: Zelensky to address U.N. Security Council; U.S. warns of lengthy war

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will give a wartime address to the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday in a meeting that is expected to focus on the massacres in Bucha. There is global outrage amid mounting evidence that Russian forces slaughtered civilians in the Ukrainian city — a Washington Post photographer witnessed corpses with their hands tied behind their backs — though Moscow has rebuffed the accusations as “staged provocations.”

In a video address posted early Tuesday, Zelensky again called for an investigation into Russian wartime conduct, alleging that the Kremlin’s soldiers did “things that the locals had not seen even during the Nazi occupation 80 years ago.” His foreign minister said at a briefing Monday that the humanitarian situation in the devastated port city of Mariupol was “much worse.” President Biden again said war crimes had taken place in Ukraine and vowed to hold Russian President Vladimir Putin accountable.

As the Russian invasion grinds on, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters Monday that the Kremlin was moving its military focus to Ukraine’s south and east. The next stage of the conflict is likely to be “protracted,” and Russia will continue to use brutal tactics, he warned.

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The latest on key battlegrounds in Ukraine

By Hannah Knowles12:21 a.m.

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Russian-held areas and troop movement

BELARUS

RUSSIA

POL.

Chernihiv

Separatist-

controlled

area

Kyiv

Lviv

Kharkiv

UKRAINE

Mariupol

Odessa

ROMANIA

200 MILES

Control areas as of April 4

Sources: Institute for the Study of War,

AEI’s Critical Threats Project, Post reporting

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Russian-held areas

and troop movement

BELARUS

RUSSIA

Chernihiv

POLAND

Chernobyl

Kyiv

Sumy

Lviv

Kharkiv

UKRAINE

Separatist-

controlled

area

Odessa

Mariupol

Berdyansk

ROMANIA

Kherson

Sea of

Azov

Crimea

Annexed by Russia

in 2014

100 MILES

Active nuclear power plants with power-generating capabilities

Black Sea

Control areas as of April 4

Sources: Institute for the Study of War, AEI's Critical Threats Project, Post reporting

Russian-held areas

and troop movement

BELARUS

RUSSIA

Chernihiv

POLAND

Chernobyl

Kyiv

Sumy

Lviv

Kharkiv

Separatist-

controlled

area

UKRAINE

Mykolaiv

Mariupol

Berdyansk

Kherson

ROMANIA

Odessa

Sea of

Azov

Kherson

Crimea

Annexed by Russia

in 2014

Active nuclear power plants with power-generating capabilities

Black

Sea

Control areas as of April 4

100 MILES

Sources: Institute for the Study of War, AEI's Critical Threats Project, Post reporting

Northern Ukraine: Officials in northern Ukraine continued to report Monday that Russian forces have withdrawn. The governor of the Zhytomyr region said Russian forces had left his area. The Sumy regional governor said the same. The Ukrainian military said over the weekend that some villages in the Chernihiv region were cleared.Eastern Ukraine: Russia appears to be refocusing its attacks on southern and eastern Ukraine, including the provinces of Luhansk and Donetsk, U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Monday. Pro-Kremlin separatists controlled some territory there before Russia’s invasion.Kharkiv: A spokesman for Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said Russian forces continue to shell the large northeastern city and may be preparing a renewed offensive to “take” the hub — an early target just 25 miles from the Russian border.Mariupol: As many as 130,000 people remain trapped in this port city where shelling has destroyed most infrastructure, Mayor Vadym Boychenko said Monday. Fighting continues, he said, while residents remain cut off from water, electricity and communications. A humanitarian convoy has struggled to reach the city for four days and hit more roadblocks Monday when team members were stopped and held just west of Mariupol, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.Mykolaiv: The governor of the southern Mykolaiv region, Vitaliy Kim, said Monday that Russian strikes badly damaged the southern front-line area of Ukraine, with projectiles hitting more than 2,000 buildings — including homes, hospitals and other health facilities. The strikes have killed at least 161 people, including six children, he said, adding that at least 85 towns and villages were without electricity. His figures could not be independently verified. The mayor of Mykolaiv city said Monday that 10 people were killed and 46 wounded in shellings that hit civilian buildings.

David Stern and Jennifer Hassan contributed to this report.

In Mykolaiv, Russia continues a pattern: Shelling hospitals

By Isabelle Khurshudyan and Jennifer Hassan12:20 a.m.

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MYKOLAIV, Ukraine — Mothers with newborn babies, a woman with a heart condition and elderly people who couldn’t walk on their own hurriedly evacuated to the basement at a Mykolaiv hospital on Sunday night as the booming thuds of artillery drew closer.

They made it down to shelter just in time. Five minutes after patients and staff had crowded into the cramped underground hallway, a suspected cluster munition landed right next to the building. The blast shattered nearly all of the windows.

It made for an eventful first night for Bohdan, who was born in the makeshift bomb shelter after his mother, Vitalina, and others from the maternity ward made the most harrowing journey to safety, from the hospital’s top floor.

“The Russians are animals; there’s no other explanation,” said Bohdan’s grandmother Vlada.

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