The journalists were banned by the Ukrainian military not to report from the recently recaptured Kherson region.
Biden said the UN resolution against Russia’s annexations in Ukraine, passed with a historic majority, was a message to Moscow that it can’t erase a sovereign state from the map.
The missile attack on the city of Zaporizhzhia in the southern region of the same name left some people buried under the rubble.
Ukraine said its forces retook more settlements in Kherson, one of four partially Russian-occupied regions that President Vladimir Putin formally incorporated into Russia.
Russia is promising to reoccupy Ukraine’s recently liberated areas in Kyiv’s swift counteroffensive, claiming they will belong to Russia “forever.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has formalised annexing four Ukrainian regions amid major battlefield reversals in recent days.
“Expansion of the sanctions regime to Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, new criteria for sanctions circumvention and new listings,” the presidency added.
Ukraine has virtually ruled out talks before a complete Russian withdrawal as its forces retake large parts of the occupied regions.
The upper house of the Russian parliament has ratified Moscow’s annexation of the Ukrainian regions of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson.
“So far, 23 dead and 28 wounded. All civilians,” Zaporizhzhia regional governor Oleksandr Starukh wrote on Telegram.
