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Russia puts more strength behind ‘creeping’ Ukraine advance

Residents collect water from a public pump in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) A tank is towed near Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Ukrainian emergency service personnel work outside a damaged building following shelling, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Sofiia Bobok) U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink, left, and Ukraine's Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova tour destroyed areas of Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) A girl plays at a square near buildings destroyed during attacks in Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) A member of a medical rescue team covers the windows of a building used as a temporary base in the Donetsk oblast region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Local residents load a car before evacuating from Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Ukrainian emergency service personnel work outside the damaged building following shelling, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Sofiia Bobok) Members of a medical rescue team gather inside their temporary base in the Donetsk oblast region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Residents collect water from a public pump in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) A woman pushes a baby stroller near a building damaged during a Russian attack in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Local residents are evacuated from Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) A security member of a medical rescue team cleans his weapon in the Donetsk oblast region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) A man stands looking at a building destroyed during attacks, in Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) A girl plays at a square near buildings destroyed during attacks in Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) A tank is towed near Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Ukrainian emergency service personnel work outside a damaged building following shelling, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Sofiia Bobok) Pope Francis listens to children's questions during an audience in the San Damaso courtyard at the Vatican, Saturday, June 4, 2022. Pope Francis met about 160 children of the Sant'Alessio- Margherita di Savoia care institution for blind, visually impaired, or with other disabilities and a group of children refugee from Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) Ukraine's Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova and U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink, left, survey a destroyed building in Borodyanka, outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) A member of a medical rescue team covers the windows of a building used as a temporary base in the Donetsk oblast region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Local residents load a car before evacuating from Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Ukrainian emergency service personnel work outside the damaged building following shelling, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Sofiia Bobok) Members of a medical rescue team gather inside their temporary base in the Donetsk oblast region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) A woman pushes a baby stroller near a building damaged during a Russian attack in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Residents collect water from a public pump in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Local residents are evacuated from Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) A man stands looking at a building destroyed during attacks, in Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) A security member of a medical rescue team cleans his weapon in the Donetsk oblast region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink, left, and Ukraine's Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova tour destroyed areas of Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) A man stands looking at a building destroyed during attacks, in Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) A woman takes pictures of a building destroyed by shelling, in Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) Pope Francis hugs a child refugee from Ukraine during an audience in the San Damaso courtyard at the Vatican, Saturday, June 4, 2022. Pope Francis met about 160 children of the Sant'Alessio- Margherita di Savoia care institution for blind, visually impaired, or with other disabilities and a group of children refugee from Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) Local residents are evacuated from Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Residents collect water from a public pump in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) A tank is towed near Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Members of a medical rescue team gather inside their temporary base in the Donetsk oblast region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) A security member of a medical rescue team cleans his weapon in the Donetsk oblast region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Ukrainian emergency service personnel work outside the damaged building following shelling, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Sofiia Bobok) Ukrainian emergency service personnel work outside a damaged building following shelling, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Sofiia Bobok) U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink, left, and Ukraine's Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova tour destroyed areas of Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) A man stands looking at a building destroyed during attacks, in Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) A woman takes pictures of a building destroyed by shelling, in Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) Pope Francis hugs a child refugee from Ukraine during an audience in the San Damaso courtyard at the Vatican, Saturday, June 4, 2022. Pope Francis met about 160 children of the Sant'Alessio- Margherita di Savoia care institution for blind, visually impaired, or with other disabilities and a group of children refugee from Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) Local residents are evacuated from Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Residents collect water from a public pump in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) A tank is towed near Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Members of a medical rescue team gather inside their temporary base in the Donetsk oblast region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) A security member of a medical rescue team cleans his weapon in the Donetsk oblast region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Ukrainian emergency service personnel work outside the damaged building following shelling, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Sofiia Bobok) Ukrainian emergency service personnel work outside a damaged building following shelling, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Sofiia Bobok) U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink, left, and Ukraine's Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova tour destroyed areas of Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) A man stands looking at a building destroyed during attacks, in Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) A woman takes pictures of a building destroyed by shelling, in Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) Pope Francis hugs a child refugee from Ukraine during an audience in the San Damaso courtyard at the Vatican, Saturday, June 4, 2022. Pope Francis met about 160 children of the Sant'Alessio- Margherita di Savoia care institution for blind, visually impaired, or with other disabilities and a group of children refugee from Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) Local residents are evacuated from Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Residents collect water from a public pump in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) A tank is towed near Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Members of a medical rescue team gather inside their temporary base in the Donetsk oblast region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) A security member of a medical rescue team cleans his weapon in the Donetsk oblast region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Pope Francis hugs a child refugee from Ukraine during an audience in the San Damaso courtyard at the Vatican, Saturday, June 4, 2022. Pope Francis met about 160 children of the Sant'Alessio- Margherita di Savoia care institution for blind, visually impaired, or with other disabilities and a group of children refugee from Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) Local residents are evacuated from Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Residents collect water from a public pump in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) A tank is towed near Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Members of a medical rescue team gather inside their temporary base in the Donetsk oblast region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) A security member of a medical rescue team cleans his weapon in the Donetsk oblast region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink, left, and Ukraine's Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova tour destroyed areas of Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) A man stands looking at a building destroyed during attacks, in Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) A woman takes pictures of a building destroyed by shelling, in Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) Pope Francis hugs a child refugee from Ukraine during an audience in the San Damaso courtyard at the Vatican, Saturday, June 4, 2022. Pope Francis met about 160 children of the Sant'Alessio- Margherita di Savoia care institution for blind, visually impaired, or with other disabilities and a group of children refugee from Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) Local residents are evacuated from Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Residents collect water from a public pump in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) A tank is towed near Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Members of a medical rescue team gather inside their temporary base in the Donetsk oblast region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) A security member of a medical rescue team cleans his weapon in the Donetsk oblast region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink, left, and Ukraine's Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova tour destroyed areas of Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) A man stands looking at a building destroyed during attacks, in Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) A woman takes pictures of a building destroyed by shelling, in Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) Pope Francis hugs a child refugee from Ukraine during an audience in the San Damaso courtyard at the Vatican, Saturday, June 4, 2022. Pope Francis met about 160 children of the Sant'Alessio- Margherita di Savoia care institution for blind, visually impaired, or with other disabilities and a group of children refugee from Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) Local residents are evacuated from Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Residents collect water from a public pump in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) A tank is towed near Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Members of a medical rescue team gather inside their temporary base in the Donetsk oblast region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) A security member of a medical rescue team cleans his weapon in the Donetsk oblast region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink, left, and Ukraine's Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova tour destroyed areas of Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) A man stands looking at a building destroyed during attacks, in Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) A woman takes pictures of a building destroyed by shelling, in Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) Pope Francis hugs a child refugee from Ukraine during an audience in the San Damaso courtyard at the Vatican, Saturday, June 4, 2022. Pope Francis met about 160 children of the Sant'Alessio- Margherita di Savoia care institution for blind, visually impaired, or with other disabilities and a group of children refugee from Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) Residents collect water from a public pump in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) A tank is towed near Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Local residents are evacuated from Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink, left, and Ukraine's Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova tour destroyed areas of Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) A man stands looking at a building destroyed during attacks, in Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) A woman takes pictures of a building destroyed by shelling, in Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during interview with the Russia-1 TV channel in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Friday, June 3, 2022. Putin on Friday blamed the West for emerging global food and energy crises and repeated his government's offers of safe passage for ships exporting grain from Ukraine if mines are removed from the waters. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) In this handout photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Monday, May 30, 2022, a Russian Su-25 ground attack jet fires rockets on a mission at an undisclosed location in Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP) A boy peers through the window of a children's train in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. The Children's Railways, that lets children drive trains and learn about working in the railways, started to run again Saturday around Syretskyi Park rail track after being closed due to the war with Russia. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) Children in train guard uniforms wait for the departure of a children's train in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. The Children's Railways, that lets children drive trains and learn about working in the railways, started to run again Saturday around Syretskyi Park rail track after being closed due to the war with Russia. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) A cut tree is placed as a roadblock on the road in the Donetsk oblast region, eastern Ukraine, Friday, June 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) A woman runs from a house that's on fire after shelling in Donetsk, on the territory which is under the Government of the Donetsk People's Republic control, eastern Ukraine, Friday, June 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov) FILE - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy answers media questions during a press conference in a city subway under a central square in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 23, 2022. U.S. intelligence agencies underestimated Zelenskyy and Ukraine while overestimating Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin, even as they accurately predicted Putin would order an invasion. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File) Relatives of Army Col. Oleksander Makhachek mourn during his funeral in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, Friday, June 3, 2022. According to combat comrades Makhachek was killed fighting Russian forces when a shell landed in his position on May 30. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Russia puts more strength behind ‘creeping’ Ukraine advance