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Russia continued its campaign to isolate Ukraine’s major Black Sea ports to the south and lay siege to its major cities, bombarding military and, increasingly, civilian targets. More than two million Ukrainians have fled their devastated country. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed to “fight to the end, at sea, in the air,” echoing Winston Churchill, Britain’s prime minister during World War II, in an emotional video address.