Kyiv says its troops are holding the line as Russian forces press ahead to complete their capture of eastern Ukraine
Russia unleashed ground forces, air strikes and artillery as it pressed ahead with a grinding offensive designed to complete its capture of eastern Ukraine, but Kyiv said its troops were putting up fierce resistance and holding the line.
Russia gave a different assessment. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov claimed his forces had captured a factory for Moscow on the edge of the eastern town of Soledar, other Russian-backed forces said they were in the process of “clearing out” the heavily fortified village of Pisky, and Russian media reported that a group of mercenaries from the Wagner Group had dug in near the city of Bakhmut.
Ukraine, which say Russia is prosecuting an unprovoked imperial-style war of aggression, is banking on sophisticated Western-supplied rocket and artillery systems to degrade Russian supply lines and logistics. Neither side has revealed the number of dead or wounded, but both are believed to have suffered heavy losses.
Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky said in an interview with the Washington Post that he wanted the West to impose a blanket ban on all Russians, including those that had fled Russia since Feb. 24 because they disagreed with Putin’s decision to invade.“They’ll understand then,” he said. “They’ll say, ‘This has nothing to do with us. The whole population can’t be held responsible, can it?’ It can.
Tensions remained high around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest of its kind in Europe, after both sides accused each other at the weekend of endangering it with reckless military action.
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