With waves of invading Russian troops pushing for their first significant victory in months, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday that his country’s forces would “fight as long as we can” to hold on to the embattled city of Bakhmut.
KYIV, Ukraine — With waves of invading Russian troops pushing for their first significant victory in months, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday that his country’s forces would “fight as long as we can” to hold on to the embattled city of Bakhmut in the eastern Donetsk region.
The summit was a gesture of solidarity by the E.U. — the first such gathering since Russia’s full-scale invasion began nearly a year ago, and a strong signal to Moscow, which has sought to block Ukraine’s aspirations to become a Western-style democracy for more than a decade. Von der Leyen, however, said there were “no rigid timelines” but rather “goals” that Ukraine needed to reach first. Michel, for his part, said the E.U. was with Zelensky and the Ukrainian people “today … tomorrow and for long as it takes.”
Ukrainian officials have pushed for a special tribunal, like those that prosecuted war crimes in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, to render judgment over what they say is a war of aggression by Russia.
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