Polish President Andrzej Duda urges parliament in Kyiv not to cede ‘one inch’ of territory
Kyiv — Ukraine ruled out a ceasefire or any territorial concessions to Moscow while Russia intensified its attack in the eastern Donbas region and stopped sending gas to Finland in its latest response to its deepening international isolation.
After ending weeks of resistance by the last Ukrainian fighters in the strategic southeastern port of Mariupol, Russia is waging a major offensive in Luhansk, one of two provinces in Donbas. Sievierodonetsk and its twin across the Siverskiy Donets River, Lysychansk, form the eastern part of a Ukrainian-held pocket that Russia has been trying to overrun since mid-April after failing to capture Kyiv and shifting its focus to the east and south of the country.
“The war will not stop. It will just be put on pause for some time,” Podolyak said in an interview in the heavily guarded presidential office. “They’ll start a new offensive, even more bloody and large scale.” The last Ukrainian forces holed up Mariupol’s vast Azovstal steelworks have surrendered, the Russian defence ministry said on Friday. While Ukraine has not confirmed all its forces have left, the commander of the Azov regiment, one of the units in the factory, said in a video that Ukraine’s military command ordered the forces in Mariupol to stand down to preserve their lives.
Finland said it is prepared for the cut-off of Russian flows. It applied together with its Nordic neighbour Sweden on Wednesday to join the Nato military alliance, though that is facing resistance from Nato member Turkey.
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