The Pentagon said there was « a lot of kinetic activity » in between the cities of Kherson and Mykolaiv, but no major changes on the battlefield.\n\n
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Ukrainian troops in the country’s east are fighting on in the face of intense Russian bombardment, under conditions in the Donbas region that President Volodymyr Zelensky described as “hell.” In his nightly address, Zelensky repeated accusations that the Kremlin’s forces were committing genocide, citing Russian bombing of civilian targets in the Chernihiv region and the city of Severodonetsk.
The Pentagon said Thursday it had observed “a lot of kinetic activity,” or active fighting, in between the cities of Kherson and Mykolaiv, but that there were no major changes on the battlefield. On the same day, the Senate President Biden’s $40 billion aid package, which contains fresh military, humanitarian and financial assistance to Ukraine. Biden is set to sign the package into law during his trip to East Asia., a military unit that helped defend Mariupol and has far-right ties, said Thursday in a Telegram video that he was still inside the Azovstal steel plant. The caption of the video disavowed surrender.
A top Ukrainian military official offered a confident assessment of his country’s ability to defeat Russia, claiming successful counterattacks in the cities of Kharkiv and Mykolaiv.
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