Meanwhile, the humanitarian crisis in the encircled city of Mariupol deepens, with Russian forces blocking evacuation operations for the second day in a row.

A convoy of buses headed to Mariupol in another bid to evacuate people from the besieged port city after the Russian military agreed to a limited cease-fire in the area.

The intel community has concluded that Putin was unaware that the military had been using and losing conscripts in Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he stressed to President Biden that the war is at a ‘turning point.’