A Western intelligence report indicated that Chinese officials in early February requested that senior Russian officials wait until after the Beijing Olympics had finished before beginningan invasion into Ukraine, US officials said Wednesday. More about the video: Zelensky vowed last month to"find the murderers"involved in the video, as officials in Kyiv roundly condemned the incident as a war crime. Russias Defense Ministry said on Monday that airborne troops and assault units were pinning Ukrainian forces back in the western part of the city. According to parliament, this is not Guemys first work in Ukraine. Apartment strike in Uman: The search and rescue operation in the central Ukrainian city was declared over,following Fridaysdeadly missile strikethat hitan apartment building, killing at least 23 people including six children, according to authorities. Ukraines defense minister, Oleksii Reznikov, said Monday in an appearance on national television that the military was reaching the finish line in preparations to launch a counteroffensive and that commanders would decide how, where and when.. But a young woman and her three-year-old child were killed in the eastern city of Dnipro in another attack, according to the citys mayor, Borys Filatov, in a Facebook post. The agency cited Ukrainian national police as saying at least six people were killed and 17 wounded in Uman, about 215km (134 miles) south of Kyiv, where two cruise missiles hit a nine-storey residential building. (ABC News) Russian troops have already moved into Ukraine's eastern regions Donetsk and Luhansk after Russian President Vladimir Putin recognised them as independent. Satellite images show Russian convoys creeping up on Ukraine We spoke of all these things. The plea comes from Ukrainian-based satellite data firm EOS Data Analytics (EOSDA . The Ukrainian fighter said Wagner forces seem to have an "unlimited number" of shells, but "their artillery is firing every minute, every few seconds.". During his trip to Budapest, the Pope met with a representative from the pro-Kremlin Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Hilarion. Russia's strategy in itswar on Ukraineis shifting toward a "slow annihilation" of the Ukrainian military, US and other Western officials tell CNN, warning that Russia could focus on a bloody and deadly bombardment of cities and civilian targets as the conflict becomes a grinding war of attrition. Seventeen people were injured in the strike, including three children. Nova Kakhova a Russian-occupied town in the south that is home to an important hydroelectric project on the Dnipro River experienced "severe artillery fire" by Ukrainian forces this weekend, according to the local Russian-backed administration. What Happened on Day 4 of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine The two men and their top editors joined their counterparts at a third major American newspaper to jointly voice support for Mr. Gershkovich in a full-page ad in their print editions last week. Russia views the capture of the southeastern port city as a key priority and has hammered it hard with. Zelensky, who claimed that more than 4,500 Russian soldiers had been killed, urged the invaders to . At the time, the couple specialized in exotic animal and wildlife rescue. A view shows a heavily damaged residential building hit by a Russian missile, amid Russias attack on Ukraine, in the town of Uman, Cherkasy region, on Friday.