US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Russia is trying to brutalise parts of Ukraine but failing in its war aims.
He was speaking after meeting President Zelensky in Kyiv on Sunday - the highest-level US visit since Russia's invasion began.
US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, who also went to Kyiv, said the US wanted to see Russia militarily weakened.
Five railway stations have come under attack in central and western Ukraine, according to officials.
Strikes reportedly hit Krasne, near Lviv in the west, and Zhmerynka and Kozyatyn in central Ukraine, with reports of casualties.
Russia says it will suspend attacks on the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol at 12:00 UK time to allow civilians to leave.
But people who escaped the city recently tell the BBC they were held in Russian-run processing centres that resembled concentration camps.
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