Russian air strikes killed 35 people at a military base outside Ukraine's western city of Lviv, local officials said Sunday, in an attack that brings the conflict dangerously close to the Polish border.
Another nine people were also killed in a strike on the southern city of Mykolaiv, the regional governor said, while the capital Kyiv braced for possible encirclement by Russian forces.
Overnight, missiles struck a military training ground in Yavoriv near Lviv, about 20 kilometres from the Polish border, regional governor Maxim Kozitsky said. Meanwhile, efforts continue to get help to the strategic southern port city of Mariupol, which aid agencies say is facing a humanitarian catastrophe.
He said"about 1 300" Ukrainian soldiers had been killed since 24 February, giving his country's first official toll. In Kyiv, only the roads to the south remain open and the city is preparing to mount a"relentless defence", according to the Ukrainian presidency. At the demolished bridge between the northwest suburb of Irpin and Kyiv itself, an AFP reporter on Sunday saw Ukrainian troops carry the corpses of three fellow soldiers on stretchers across the river on a makeshift plank bridge.
But in a small glimmer of hope, Zelensky said Saturday that Russia had adopted a"fundamentally different approach" in the latest talks to end the conflict.
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