United State President Joe Biden has sought to prevent Beijing giving new life to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in a video call with Chinese President Xi Jinping, as Moscow pressed on with bombardments that have taken the place of military advances.
With Russia trying to regain the initiative in a stalled campaign, three missiles landed at an airport near Lviv, a city where hundreds of thousands thought they had found refuge far from Ukraine’s battlefields.
The Russian Defence ministry said it was “tightening the noose” around the besieged southern port of Mariupol, where officials said more than One thousand people might still be trapped in makeshift bomb shelters beneath a destroyed theatre
