Russian and Ukrainian troops faced off today along a 300-mile battlefront in the country’s east, where the Ukrainian military said its forces had beaten back more than half a dozen separate attacks.
two days earlier. But the situation was dire: Russia continued to bombard the giant steelworks plant where holdout Ukrainian forces and an unknown number of civilians were holed up.Russian forces have more artillery, tanks and heavy fighting units than Ukraine, but they have been plagued by problems as they enter a pivotal battle for eastern Ukraine.
Communications have been largely severed for weeks with Mariupol, strategically located on the Sea of Azov, and the horrors of weeks of bombardment and besiegement are only beginning to be fully revealed. Satellite imagery has revealed the existence of at least one mass grave on the city’s outskirts, and the Associated Press reported that another mass burial site has been detected.
Russia on Friday telegraphed a potential expansion of its war aims, with a senior military officer saying Moscow also sought a land corridor linking the Donbas to a Russian separatist territory in the neighboring country of Moldova, to the west. That would involve seizing Ukraine’s entire southern seacoast, including the coveted port city of Odesa, leaving the country landlocked., Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the remarks by Gen.
It remained unclear, though, whether the general’s remarks represented a new official policy on Moscow’s war aims. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined comment. In Ukraine’s east, Western analysts say there was little sign that Russia had managed to capture much more ground in recent days. The British military intelligence assessment reported “no major gains in the last 24 hours, as Ukrainian counter-attacks continue to hinder their efforts.”
The Kremlin is also coping with the aftermath of one of its biggest symbolic defeats of the war: the sinking of the flagship of its Black Sea fleet, the Moskva, in what the Kyiv government and Western military officials say was a Ukrainian missile strike.
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