Russia declared the start of an intensified campaign for eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, focusing heavy firepower on areas key to cementing control of the country’s industrial heartland.
for Russia and its local allies, as Ukrainian officials report Russian shelling on the plant and surrounding residential areas. Hundreds of civilians are reported to be hiding underground beneath the vast manufacturing complex.
To the north, Russian forces have taken control of Luhansk’s city of Kreminna, forcing local troops to pull back, the region’s governor said Tuesday. Control of Kreminna puts Russia closer to Kramatorsk, the capital of neighboring Donetsk.“Kreminna today unfortunately is already under the control of the orcs,” Luhansk Gov. Serhiy Haidai told reporters, using a pejorative term for Russian forces.
Ukrainian troops hope to employ some of the increasing weapons supplies from NATO and other nations, now including additional air defense systems, anti-ship missiles and even tanks. U.S. and other NATO countries have stopped short, however, of bowing to Ukrainian appeals for fighter jets and the establishment of a no-fly zone over Ukraine.“It is unfair that Ukraine is still forced to ask for what its partners have been storing somewhere for years,” Zelensky said Tuesday.
. The European official, however, said he expected that in four to six months Moscow will have consolidated its grasp of a new Russian-controlled “state” in Luhansk, in addition to controlling parts of Donetsk and a small slice of Zaporizhzhia, a region in the south. “So by summer 2022, Putin can declare he has protected the Russian population in occupied Donbas,” he said.
Sunday’s Orthodox Easter holiday, celebrated by Christians in Ukraine and Russia, allowing for the departure of trapped civilians and the delivery of aid to cities, including Mariupol. He said the United Nations was prepared to send aid convoys to assist millions of people in need.
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