Ukraine says its forces repel Russian assaults along the length of the front line. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Three ambulance workers trying to evacuate people from their homes in the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, were killed by Ukrainian shelling on Thursday, a Russian-installed official in the region said.Russia’s defence ministry said in a morning bulletin that its forces fired artillery at Ukraine military units in areas including Vuhledar in the south of the Donetsk region. The bulletin made no mention of Bakhmut.
“Nothing unusual will happen. Usual effort... A small missile strike is planned,” military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov told the Ukrainska Pravda news website. “Believe me, we have experienced this more than 20 times.”Western powers have provided Ukraine with billions of dollars in weapons since Russia invaded. The United States and Nato have accused China of considering supplying arms to Russia, a strategic partner of Beijing.
The RS-28 Sarmat missiles, dubbed “Satan 2“, whose deployment Mr Putin announced on Thursday, were first unveiled in 2018 and were already supposed to have been deployed last year.Embed TwitterEchoing similar statements by Mr Putin, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu accused the West of using Ukraine to try to break up Russia, the world’s largest country by territory, but he said any such attempt would fail.
Tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians and troops on both sides are believed to have died in the war. Russian forces have destroyed Ukrainian cities and set millions of refugees to flight.
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