Ukraine attacks continue amid Easter pleas for peace April 09, 2023 at 05:26AM

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.