United Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited sites of suspected war crimes in the Kyiv suburbs of Bucha, Irpin and Borodianka.

In Irpin, Guterres visited the destroyed Irpinsky Lipki residential complex and said that the “horrific scenario demonstrates something that is unfortunately always true: Civilians always pay the highest price."

Guterres urged Russia to cooperate with the investigation launched by the International Criminal Court.

Guterres, speaking from Bucha, said, “When we see this horrendous site, it makes me feel how important it is [to have] a thorough investigation and accountability."

-ABC News' Christine Theodorou

There are now 92 operational Russian battalion tactical groups -- each made up of about 700 to 1,000 troops -- inside Ukraine, a senior U.S. defense official said Thursday.

Russia continues to suffer logistical problems, as it has since early in the invasion. This, on top of the Ukrainian defense, is slowing their progress.

"They're only able to sustain several kilometers or so progress on any given day just because they don't want to run out too far ahead of their logistics and sustainment lines," the official said.

The official added, "We would assess that Russian forces are making slow and uneven, and frankly, we would describe it as incremental progress, in the Donbas."

More than 54 of the 90 howitzers the U.S. is sending Ukraine have arrived in the country, the official said.

The first batch of 50 Ukrainians taken out of the country for training on U.S. artillery systems is back in Ukraine, where they can teach others what they've learned, the official said. A second group of 50 Ukrainians has begun its six days of training, the official said.

-ABC News' Matt Seyler

President Joe Biden is asking Congress for a total of $33 billion in supplemental aid for Ukraine over the next five months, administration officials previewed in a Thursday morning call ahead of the president's remarks.

Over $20 billion of the $33 billion will be for military and other security systems.

"The cost of this fight is not cheap. But caving to aggression is going to be more costly," Biden said in remarks later in the morning.

Biden stressed, "We're not attacking Russia -- we're helping Ukraine defend itself against Russian aggression."

The administration is also asking for an additional $8.5 billion in economic assistance to help provide basic services to the Ukrainian people.

Part of the package also includes targeted funding to address economic disruptions in the U.S. as a result of the war in Ukraine, like helping increase U.S. production of wheat and soybeans, "and funding to allow the use of the Defense Production Act to expand domestic production of critical reserves - of reserves of critical minerals and materials that have been disrupted by Putin’s war and are necessary to make everything from defense systems to cars," a senior administration official said.

Biden insisted that, despite Russia's claims, the U.S. is not fighting a proxy war.

"It shows the desperation that Russia is feeling about their abject failure in being able to do what they set out to do in the first instance," Biden said.

-ABC News' Justin Gomez and Armando Tonatiuh Torres-García

The Russian Navy still has the ability to strike coastal targets in Ukraine, even after the "embarrassing losses" of two warships, according to the U.K. Ministry of Defense.

In an intelligence update posted Thursday, the ministry said approximately 20 Russian naval vessels, including submarines, are currently in the "Black Sea operational zone." But the ministry said Russia isn't able to replace the missile cruiser Moskva because the Bosphorus strait remains closed to all non-Turkish warships.

The Moskva, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet, sunk in the Black Sea earlier this month while being towed to port after a fire onboard, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense. Ukrainian officials, however, claimed that ship was struck by Ukrainian missiles, which the Russian defense ministry has denied.

Russia also lost the landing ship Saratov, which was destroyed by explosions and fire on March 24.

White House national security advisor Jake Sullivan hinted Thursday of more sanctions coming against Russia in the "next week or two" aimed at targeting ways Moscow is evading sanctions already imposed.

“Where our focus will be over the course of the coming days is on evasion,” Sullivan said Thursday at the Economic Club of Washington. “As Russia tries to adjust to the fact that it’s under this massive economic pressure, what steps do they take to try to evade our sanctions and how do we crack down on that? And I think we'll have some announcements in the next week or two that identify targets that are trying to facilitate that evasion both inside Russia and beyond."

When Sullivan was asked whether sanctions will automatically be lifted if a negotiated peace deal between Russia and Ukraine is worked out, he appeared cautious with his words, saying, “a lot of that depends on what the shape and scope” of the agreement is.

“A lot of it depends on what the Ukrainians, in consultation with us and the Europeans come to agree to," Sullivan said. "You know, we're not going to do a deal over the head of the Ukrainians where we give a bunch of sanctions relief to Russia. But if some measure of sanctions relief were built in to some credible diplomatic solution led by the Ukrainians, that's something that we would happily discuss."

But Sullivan said Russian oligarchs shouldn't expect to ever get back their yachts and other assets seized under sanctions that have been imposed, saying the ultimate goal is "not to give them back” once the war is over.

“The president is actively looking at how we can deal with the fact that as we seize these assets, our goal is not to give them back. Our goal is to put them to a better use than that," Sullivan said. "But I'll be careful in what I say today because there's an ongoing kind of policy process around how we end up dealing with that question. But, rest assured, that the goal is not just to sit on them for a while."

-ABC News' Justin Gomez