Zaporizhzhia (Ukraine) (AFP) – Russia said Friday it intended a full-bore assault to carve out a sizeable slice of Ukraine, but Kyiv said the invaders faced ruin, as the UN documented the killing of dozens of civilians in one town. Ukraine’s government, emboldened by a fresh influx of high-grade Western weaponry, said its beleaguered forces were still holding out inside a sprawling, seaside steelworks in the razed city of Mariupol. The Kremlin has claimed the “liberation” of Mariupol, the control of which is pivotal to its war plans nearly two months after President Vladimir Putin ordered the …