The Ukrainian president has urged European leaders visiting Kyiv to pile more sanctions on Russia, where his counterpart Vladimir Putin evoked a World War Two victory over Nazi forces to rally his nation.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged European leaders visiting Kyiv to pile more sanctions on Russia.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged European leaders visiting Kyiv to pile more sanctions on Russia, where President Vladimir Putin evoked a World War Two victory over the Nazis to rally his nation. Moscow said it struck US-made rocket launchers in the area about 55 km northwest of Bakhmut city, currently the main focus of fighting in eastern Ukraine where Russia has been making incremental gains in recent weeks.Speaking in Volgograd, formerly known as Stalingrad where the Soviet army defeated Nazi forces 80 years ago, Mr Putin predicted a new victory in Ukraine.
Mr Putin casts his "special military operation" in Ukraine as a fight to "disarm" his neighbour, a fellow former Soviet republic, and defend Russia against an aggressive West. Ukraine and the West call it an illegal war to expand Russian territory.After arriving in Kyiv by train for talks about Ukraine's aspiration to join the European Union, the head of the bloc's executive Commission pledged more financial, military and political aid for Ukraine.
The Ukrainian leader urged more sanctions, saying the pace had "slightly slowed" and that Moscow was adapting to them during the biggest armed conflict in Europe since World War Two. "The faster and better this task is accomplished, the closer we will be to defeating the aggression of the Russian Federation," he said.
"We're both firing with everything we have," said a Belarusian volunteer fighting for Ukraine inside Bakhmut.Ukraine has secured pledges of weapons from the West offering new capabilities - the latest expected this week to include rockets from the United States that would nearly double the range of Ukrainian forces.
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