“This is beyond humanity”: After a Russian strike on a Holocaust memorial in Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday that Russia is trying to “erase our history, our country and all of us.”
and civilians with missiles, but with pressure from unprecedented international sanctions against Moscow swelling by the day, that appeared to be Putin's strategy.
Ukraine's State Emergency Service said Wednesday that more than 2,000 civilians had been killed since the beginning of Russia's invasion. Putin's forces continued pushing slowly into Ukrainian territory, claiming"full control" on Wednesday of the city of Kherson on the southern coast, about 100 miles east of the key port of Odesa. An advisor to Zelensky denied Russia's claim, however, saying"the city has not fallen, our side continues to defend.
U.S. officials say a mammoth column of Russian troops and weapons currently about 20 miles north of Kyiv could move to encircle the capital city within a week, and then seize it within a month.But Russia's war from a distance — an increasingly merciless barrage of heavy artillery hitting major population centers — is already exacting a devastating toll on Ukrainian civilians. More than 660,000 have fled their homes to neighboring countries.
The mayor of the southeastern city of Mariupol said there was intense shelling overnight, leaving emergency services unable to evacuate casualties, and in Ukraine's second largest city of Kharkiv, there were reports that Russian paratroopers had landed amid an ongoing artillery barrage.
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