Ukraine Update: Russia Assault in Donbas, EU Mulls Postwar Costs

Smoke rises near destroyed residential buildings in Mariupol, Ukraine.

Photographer: Andrey Borodulin/AFP/Getty Images

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Russia’s military targeted regions in Ukraine’s south and east overnight for shelling, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy saying Moscow has begun a new campaign to conquer the Donbas area in the east of the country.

The U.S. is looking to re-establish a diplomatic presence in Ukraine and the European Union is considering ways to finance the reconstruction of the war-ravaged country.