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    Russia pummelled the vital port of Odesa, Ukrainian officials said Tuesday, in an apparent effort to disrupt supply lines and Western weapons shipments as Ukraine鈥檚 foreign minister appeared to suggest the country could expand its war aims.

    With the war now in its 11th week and Kyiv bogging down Russian forces and even staging a counteroffensive, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba seemed to indicate that the country could go beyond merely pushing Russia back to areas it or its allies held on the day of the Feb. 24 invasion.

    The idea reflected Ukraine鈥檚 ability to stymie a larger, better-armed Russian military, which has surprised many who had anticipated a much quicker end to the conflict.

    One of the most dramatic examples of Ukraine's ability to prevent easy victories is in Mariupol, where Ukrainian fighters remained holed up at a steel plant, denying Russia's full control of the city. The regiment defending the plant said Russian warplanes continued bombarding it, striking 34 times in 24 hours.

    In recent days, the United Nations and the Red Cross organized a rescue of what some officials said were the last civilians trapped at the plant. But two officials said Tuesday that about 100 were believed to still be in the complex鈥檚 underground tunnels. Donetsk regional Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said those who remain are people 鈥渢hat the Russians have not selected鈥 for evacuation.

    Kyrylenko and Petro Andryushchenko, an adviser to Mariupol鈥檚 mayor, did not say how they knew civilians were still in the complex 鈥 a warren of tunnels and bunkers spread over 11 square kilometres. Others said their statements were impossible to confirm.

    Fighters with the Azov regiment released photos of their wounded comrades inside the plant, including some with amputated limbs. They said the wounded were living in unsanitary conditions 鈥渨ith open wounds bandaged with non-sterile remnants of bandages, without the necessary medication and even food.鈥

    In its statement on Telegram, the regiment appealed to the UNand Red Cross to evacuate the wounded servicemen to Ukrainian-controlled territories.

    The photos could not be independently verified.

    In another example of the grisly toll of the war, Ukrainian officials said they found the bodies of 44 civilians in the rubble of a building destroyed weeks ago in the northeastern city of Izyum.

    New UN figures, meanwhile, said that 14 million Ukrainians were forced from their homes by the end of April, including more than 5.9 million who have left the country.

    In Washington, a top U.S. intelligence official testified Tuesday that eight to 10 Russian generals have been killed in the war. Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier, who leads the Defense Intelligence Agency, told a Senate committee that because Russia lacks a noncommissioned officer corps, its generals have to go into combat zones and end up in dangerous positions.

    Ukraine said Tuesday that Russian forces fired seven missiles at Odesa a day earlier, hitting a shopping centre and a warehouse in the country's largest port. One person was killed and five wounded, the military said.

    Images showed a burning building and debris 鈥 including a tennis shoe 鈥 in a heap of destruction in the city on the Black Sea. Mayor Gennady Trukhanov later visited the warehouse and said it 鈥渉ad nothing in common with military infrastructure or military objects.鈥

    Ukraine alleged at least some of the munitions used dated to the Soviet era, making them unreliable in targeting. Ukrainian, British and U.S. officials say Russia is rapidly using up its stock of precision weapons, raising the risk of more imprecise rockets being used as the conflict grinds on.

    Since President Vladimir Putin's forces failed to take Kyiv early in the war, his focus has shifted to the eastern industrial heartland of the Donbas 鈥 but one general has suggested Moscow鈥檚 aims also include cutting Ukraine鈥檚 maritime access to both the Black and Azov seas.

    That would also give it a swath of territory linking Russia to both the Crimean Peninsula, which it seized in 2014, and Transnistria, a pro-Moscow region of Moldova.

    Even if Russia falls short of severing Ukraine from the coast 鈥 and it appears to lack the forces to do so 鈥 the continuing missile strikes on Odesa reflect the city鈥檚 strategic importance. The Russian military has repeatedly targeted its airport and claimed it destroyed several batches of Western weapons.

    Odesa is also a major gateway for grain shipments, and its blockade by Russia already threatens global food supplies. Beyond that, the city is a cultural jewel, dear to Ukrainians and Russians alike, and targeting it carries symbolic significance.

    Russian forces have made slow advances in the Donbas, but there have been multiple setbacks. Military analysts suggest that hitting Odesa might serve to stoke concern about southwestern Ukraine, thus forcing Kyiv to put more forces there. That would pull them away from the eastern front as Ukraine's military stages counteroffensives near the northeastern city of Kharkiv.

    Kharkiv and the surrounding area has been under sustained Russian attack since the early in the war. In recent weeks, grisly pictures testified to the horrors of those battles, with charred and mangled bodies strewn in one street.

    Russian aircraft twice launched unguided missiles Tuesday at the Sumy area northeast of Kharkiv, according to the Ukrainian border guard service. The region's governor said the missiles hit several residential buildings, but no one was killed. The Chernihiv region, along the Ukrainian border with Belarus, was hit by mortars fired from Russian territory. There was no word on casualties.

    But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that the military was gradually pushing Russian troops away from Kharkiv. The Ukrainian military's general staff said its forces drove the Russians out of four villages to the northeast of Kharkiv as it tries to push them back toward the Russian border.

    Kuleba, the Ukrainian foreign minister, meanwhile, appeared to voice increasing confidence 鈥 and expanded goals 鈥 amid Russia's stalled offensive. He told the Financial Times that Ukraine initially believed victory would be the withdrawal of Russian troops to positions they occupied before the Feb. 24 invasion.

    鈥淣ow if we are strong enough on the military front, and we win the battle for Donbas, which will be crucial for the following dynamics of the war, of course the victory for us in this war will be the liberation of the rest of our territories.鈥

    The comments seemed to reflect political ambitions more than battlefield realities: Many analysts acknowledge that although Russia isn鈥檛 capable of making quick gains, the Ukrainian military isn鈥檛 strong enough to drive the Russians back.

    Zelenskyy used his nightly address to pay tribute to Leonid Kravchuk, the first president of an independent Ukraine, who died Tuesday at 88. Zelenskyy said Kravchuk showed courage and knew how to get the country to listen to him.

    That was particularly important in 鈥渃risis moments, when the future of the whole country may depend on the courage of one man,鈥 said Zelenskyy, whose own communication skills and decision to remain in Kyiv when it came under Russian attack have helped make him a strong wartime leader.

    In the U.S., President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan measure Monday to reboot the World War II-era 鈥渓end-lease鈥 program, which helped defeat Nazi Germany, to bolster Kyiv and its allies. On Tuesday, the U.S. House approved a new US$40 billion Ukraine aid package for defence and humanitarian programs in Ukraine.

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    Gambrell reported from Lviv, Ukraine. Yesica Fisch in Bakhmut, David Keyton in Kyiv, Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, Mstyslav Chernov in Kharkiv, Lolita C. Baldor in Washington, Kelvin Chan in London and AP's worldwide staff contributed.

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