Good morning. I'm Ali Valshi, live in this beautiful Ukrainian city of Lviv. It is Sunday,

April the 10th and day 46 of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This is also my final day here in Ukraine on this trip, which has spanned five weeks,

three countries, and countless tears shed bearing witness to the stories of the Ukrainian

people fleeing violence while trying to stay alive amid an unprovoked and inhumane invasion.

But that invasion rages on today. Having retreated from the north, Russia continues to focus attacks in the east and the south, launching new attacks in Kharkiv and Odessa, the latter of which remains under a weekend curfew following the Russian ballistic missile attack on the Kramatorsk train station in eastern Ukraine.

Russia is also continuing the brutal

offensive in the dystopian urban battlefield that has become Mariupol. The medieval wreckage

left behind by the Russian forces in the suburbs of Kiev continues to be revealed. In Makariv,

about an hour west of the capital, the mayor, says 132 bodies have been buried in mass graves

and estimates that 40% of the town is destroyed. Russian forces also once again blocked

humanitarian convoys from entering three different cities to evacuate civilians once again

breaking in agreement with the Red Cross. In Kyiv, we continue to see

small signs of resilience of life insisting on some kind of normalcy, including this.

The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, making a surprise visit yesterday to the Ukrainian capital.

As you can see, the British embassy even tweeted, surprise,

along with a winking emoji for a meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.

The pair of leaders, along with a well-armed security contingent, then defiantly strolled

the streets of the Capitol. They spoke with several citizens of Kiev. The European Union, which is reportedly

set to grant Ukraine candidacy status in the next few months, says it's reopening its embassy in

Kiev. Italy also announced that it intends to do the same thing in the coming days. Following

its retreat from around Kiev, Russia appears to be regrouping and reorganizing,

however. Vladimir Putin has reportedly placed General Alexander DuVornikov, a favorite of his,

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