Washington announces a new US$2 billion (S$2.7 billion) package of military aid. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Ukraine sees it as a bid to subjugate an independent state. Its outnumbered and outgunned forces repelled Russia’s attempt to seize the capital Kyiv early in the war and later recaptured swathes of occupied territory. But Moscow still occupies nearly a fifth of Ukraine, which it claims to have annexed.
Russian troops have destroyed Ukrainian cities, set a third of the population to flight and left behind streets littered with corpses in towns they occupied and lost. Moscow denies war crimes. Mr Putin says he is battling the combined might of the West in a fight for Russia’s survival. Kyiv says there can be no peace until Russia withdraws.Ukrainian servicemen fire artillery towards Russian troops, near the front-line town of Bakhmut, in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, on Feb 24, 2023. PHOTO: REUTERS
Russia has made clear, if slow, progress towards encircling Bakhmut, but failed to capture it in time to deliver a victory for Mr Putin to announce on the anniversary.
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