The Kremlin announces its offensive in every sense of the word as Putin wants full control of southern Ukraine. To do that they need to seize Ukrainian cities such as Odesa and Mariupol. Plus, we learn what it was like inside a Ukrainian village held hostage by Russian troops for more than a month.

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