Russia widened its military offensive in Ukraine on Friday, striking near airports in the west of the country for the first time.
The 14th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine saw more bloodshed and destruction as the unrelenting assault forced more citizens to flee.
"It's impossible to say how many days we will still need to free our land, but it is possible to say that we will do it because ... we have reached a strategic turning point," he said, He didn't elaborate. He said authorities were working on 12 humanitarian corridors and trying to ensure food, medicine and basic goods to people across the country.
The Lutsk strikes killed four Ukrainian servicemen and wounded six, Lutsk Mayor Ihor Polishchuk said. In Ivano-Frankivsk, residents were ordered to shelters after an air raid alert, Mayor Ruslan Martsinkiv said. The 40-mile line of vehicles, tanks and artillery had massed outside Kyiv early last week. But its advance had appeared to stall amid reports of food and fuel shortages while Ukrainian troops also targeted it with anti-tank missiles.Here is a closer look at the two men at the center of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Russia knew of"more than 16,000 applications" from Middle East countries, many of them from people he said had helped Russia against the Islamic State group, according to a Kremlin transcript.
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