Weekend shelling by Russian forces killed at least seven civilians, Ukrainian officials reported Sunday as Pope Francis and Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby used their traditional Easter messages to highlight the war in Ukraine and other conflicts around the world.
While Russia continued to concentrate on seizing all of Ukraine's industrial east, two other provinces -- Kharkiv in the northeast and Zaporizhzhia in the southeast - came under missile, rocket and artillery fire, the Ukrainian military reported.
The Zaporizhzhia region's governor, Yurii Malashko, said 18 communities in all were shelled. Three people were killed and five were wounded on Saturday, Malashko said. The Russian army is moving elite units to Bakhmut, Col. Serhiy Cherevaty, a spokesperson for Ukraine's Eastern Group of Forces, said Sunday.
While delivering his Easter address from the central balcony of the Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Francis implored God to "help the beloved Ukrainian people on their journey towards peace, and shed the light of Easter upon the people of Russia. "Injustice and brutality may seem to triumph in our short lives on earth, cruel and oppressive rulers might look as though they only get stronger," he said during a sermon delivered in Canterbury, England. "Yet they will vanish. The power of the resurrection is infinitely greater than they are."
Officials in Kherson province, where Ukrainian forces forced a partial Russian retreat in November, said the southern region also received numerous attacks. They did not report any casualties.
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