KYIV — Ukraine said on Wednesday that Russia had started creating a military strike force aimed at President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih and…
Russia holds swathes of Ukraine’s south that it captured in the early phases of its Feb. 24 invasion, but Kyiv has said it will mount a counter-offensive. It said on Tuesday it had already recaptured 53 villages in occupied Kherson region.
The steel-producing city of Kryvyi Rih where Zelenskiy grew up lies around 50 km from the southern frontline. Ukraine has been trying to ratchet up pressure on Russia’s positions in the strategically important Black Sea region of Kherson and has used Western-supplied long-range weapons to conduct strikes on Russian supply lines and ammunition dumps.
Late on Tuesday, Zelensky described the fighting on parts of the eastern frontline in the heavily industrialized Donbas as “just hell” in his nightly address to the nation.
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