Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 19)
April 19, 2022 Russia Ukraine War: What happened today (April 19) A woman walks next to a damaged building after a Russian bombardment in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday. Russia ratcheted up its battle for control of Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland on Tuesday, intensifying assaults on cities and towns along a front hundreds of miles long in what officials on both sides described as a new phase of the war. Felipe Dana/AP Ukraine's President Zelensky has said that a substantial part of Russia's military is now involved in military operations. The regional governor in Luhansk has said that the Russian army has captured the city of Kremin. Somewhere in Ukraine, rockets and artillery shells have fallen on these cities, with Ukrainian media reporting hundreds of miles of explosions and sirens of air strikes. Ukraine's army hopes to receive artillery, helicopters, drones, armored vehicles, weapons, ammunition from the US and NATO soon. A senior U