Ukrainian official warns of ‘catastrophe’ in captured city


              Internally displaced people wait to board a train heading to Dnipro, at the Pokrovsk train station, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Friday, July 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
            
              Internally displaced people board a train heading to Dnipro, at the Pokrovsk train station, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Friday, July 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
            
              Internally displaced Kira from Toretsk stands inside a train heading to Dnipro, at the Pokrovsk train station, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Friday, July 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
            
              Internally displaced people board a train heading to Dnipro, at the Pokrovsk train station, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Friday, July 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
            
              Internally displaced people board a train heading to Dnipro, at the Pokrovsk train station, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Friday, July 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
            
              In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Friday, July 8, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends a meeting with military officials during his visit the war-hit Dnipropetrovsk region. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
            
              In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Friday, July 8, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, awards a serviceman as he visits the war-hit Dnipropetrovsk region. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
            
              A man rides a bike on a street in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Friday, July 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
            
              Ukrainian soldiers ride atop a tank through a street in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Friday, July 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
            
              Internally displaced people wait to board a train heading to Dnipro, at the Pokrovsk train station, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Friday, July 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
            
              Internally displaced people board a train heading to Dnipro, at the Pokrovsk train station, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Friday, July 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
            
              In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Friday, July 8, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends a meeting with military officials during his visit the war-hit Dnipropetrovsk region. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
            
              Internally displaced Kira from Toretsk stands inside a train heading to Dnipro, at the Pokrovsk train station, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Friday, July 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
            
              Internally displaced people board a train heading to Dnipro, at the Pokrovsk train station, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Friday, July 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
            
              Internally displaced people board a train heading to Dnipro, at the Pokrovsk train station, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Friday, July 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
            
              In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Friday, July 8, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, awards a serviceman as he visits the war-hit Dnipropetrovsk region. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
            
              A police officer helps an injured woman after a strike hit a residential area, in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, July 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
            
              66-year-old Volodymyr, injured from a strike, sits on a chair in his damaged apartment, in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, July 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
            
              A police officer helps an injured woman after a strike hit a residential area, in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, July 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
            
              66-year-old Volodymyr, injured from a strike, sits on a chair in his damaged apartment, in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, July 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
            
              Russian President Vladimir Putin, background center, speaks to members of the State Duma and the Federal Assembly of The Russian Federation in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 7, 2022. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
            
              Street art shows Ukraine's attitude toward the Russian-occupied Crimea peninsula on Thursday, July 7, 2022, in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Ukraine's second-largest city continues to be regularly targeted by nearby Russia and much of the population has left. (AP Photo/Cara Anna)
            
              Paramedics carry the body of a woman who was killed during a Russian bombardment at a residential neighborhood in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, July 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
            
              A man looks out of a balcony of his house which was damaged after Russian bombardment at a residential neighborhood in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, July 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
            
              Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he speaks to members of the State Duma and the Federal Assembly of The Russian Federation in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 7, 2022. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
            
              People take cover on the floor during a strike in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, July 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
            
              An elderly woman receives humanitarian food aid from the Kramatorsk city council, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, July 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
            
              Sixty-six-year-old Volodymyr, injured from a strike, sits on a chair in his damaged apartment, in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, July 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
Ukrainian official warns of ‘catastrophe’ in captured city