In pics: Russia continues heavy shelling as bodies line streets of Ukraine

Russia, after failing to overcome Ukrainian resistance in the north, has now 'refocused' its ground offensive on Donbas, a region in southeastern Ukraine. (Photo credits: Reuters)

 

Russia has also launched long-distance strikes at targets elsewhere, including the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. (Photo credits: Reuters)

Capturing Mariupol, the main port in the Donbas region, would be a strategic prize for Russia, linking territory held by pro-Russian separatists in the east with the Crimea region Moscow annexed in 2014. (Photo credits: Reuters)

 

On the streets of Mariupol, small groups of bodies were lined up under colourful blankets, surrounded by shredded trees and scorched buildings. (Photo credits: Reuters)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday said that eighteen people have been killed and more than 100 wounded in shelling in the past four days in the northeastern city of Kharkiv. (Photo credits: Reuters)

"This is nothing but deliberate terror: mortars, artillery against ordinary residential quarters, against ordinary civilians," Zelenskiy said late on Sunday. (Photo credits: Reuters)

 

Residents, some pushing bicycles, have picked their way around destroyed tanks and civilian vehicles while Russian soldiers checked the documents of motorists. (Photo credits: Reuters)

 

Russia, however, denies targeting civilians and has rejected what Ukraine says is evidence of atrocities as staged to undermine peace talks. (Photo credits: Reuters)

Russia terms its action a special military operation to demilitarise Ukraine and eradicate what it calls dangerous nationalists. (Photo credits: Reuters)

The West and Kyiv have repeatedly accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of unprovoked aggression. (Photo credits: Reuters)

 

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that the Ukraine crisis could push more than one-fifth of humanity, or up to 1.7 billion people, into poverty and hunger. (Photo credits: Reuters)