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Russian forces are said to be “continuously attacking” a steel plant outside Mariupol, one of the last holdouts for Ukrainian forces in the city, attempting to occupy the city on Orthodox Easter Sunday. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Auston met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Sunday, making them the highest-ranking officials that have visited Ukraine since the conflict began. At press time, two months since the war began, reports indicate that Russia is failing at its goal of taking full control of southern Ukraine and the eastern Donbas region.