Russia tanks and armored Vehicles have surrounded the steel plant where thousands of Ukrainian troops are trapped in.
Russia resumed its assault on the last Ukrainian defenders holed up in a giant steelworks in Mariupol on Saturday, days after Moscow declared victory in the southern city and said its forces did not need to take the plant.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the country's army was not ready to try to break through the siege of the port city. But he said America's top diplomat, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin would visit Kyiv on Sunday and discuss the types of weapons Ukraine needs to battle the Russian invasion.
"As soon as we have (more weapons), as soon as there are enough of them, believe me, we will immediately retake this or that territory, which is temporarily occupied," Zelensky told an evening news conference in the Kyiv metro.
US President Joe Biden's administration has not confirmed any travel plans for Blinken and Austin. The State Department and Pentagon declined to comment.
The attack on Mariupol, the biggest battle of the conflict, has raged for weeks as Russia seeks to capture a city seen as vital to its attempts to link the eastern Donbas region with Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula Moscow seized in 2014.
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