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On the seventh day of fighting in Ukraine, Russia has intensified its assault on key targets including ports in the south, and the eastern city of Kharkiv. Russia says it has seized control of the Black Sea port of Kherson, but its mayor says it's still held by Ukrainian forces.

Further east, the mayor of Mariupol says the port is under constant Russian shelling, as Moscow tries to create a corridor for its forces, linking the Russian mainland and Crimea.

In Kharkiv, the Ukrainian military says Russian paratroopers have been engaged in fighting close to a military hospital. Despite the heavy fire power of the Russian military, Ukrainian MP Inna Sovsun, originally from Kharkiv and now in Kyiv, told Newsday civilians are not giving up.

"While the sirens are off you do your best to help the army and territorial defence. People are making food for the hospitals voluntarily not because someone asked them to but just because they want to, people are arranging for humanitarian aid. People are finding ways to be useful. I have not heard from a single person that we should give up."

(Pic: A Ukrainian soldier walks through Kyiv carrying the national flag; Credit: EPA)

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