Fears of intensified Russian attacks followed the killing of Darya Dugina, the daughter of a prominent Russian ultra-nationalist, in a car bombing near Moscow on Saturday.
Thomson ReutersMembers of the Honour Guard attend a flag-raising ceremony in Kyiv on Tuesday.As the war in Ukraine closes in on the six-month mark, there was concern among Ukrainian and allied Western officials that Russia was preparing to attack the capital Kyiv once again.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends a joint press conference with his Polish counterpart in Kyiv on Tuesday. The Kyiv city administration banned large public gatherings until Thursday, fearing that a crowd of celebrating residents could become a target for a Russian missile strike.Russia sent its troops over the border in what it calls a "special military operation" saying it wanted to demilitarize its neighbour and protect Russian-speaking communities. Ukraine and its Western allies accuse Moscow of waging an unjustified, imperial-style war of aggression.
"We feel good, trusting that victory will be on our side, only ours, there is no other option," Yevhen, a Ukrainian soldier, said as his frontline unit fired off several howitzer shells toward Russian positions from a field in the Donbas. It added that Ukrainian rockets and artillery had destroyed an ammunition depot and command post of a Russian airborne assault regiment in Chernobaevka in the Russian-occupied Kherson region, southwest of Zaporizhzhia.
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