The stepped-up attacks come as Russian President Vladimir Putin orders new initiatives to try to solidify Moscow's gains and secure new ones.
Russia shelled more than 40 towns and villages in the Donbas region, Ukrainian officials said Thursday, as Moscow intensified attacks in Ukraine’s industrial heartland and attempted to encircle key eastern cities.
A woman fleeing from an area near the war’s front line in Donetsk prepares to board a bus in Kurakhove, eastern Ukraine.In a sign of its thinning military resources, Russian lawmakers also removed the the age limit — until recently 40 years old — on Russians signing up for voluntary military service to fight in Ukraine.
Zelensky also bristled at suggestions that Ukraine cede territory to end the war. Speaking this week at thein Davos, Switzerland, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said Ukraine needed to give up claims to Crimea and parts of the Donbas in order to secure peace. . Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Thursday that the Ukrainian government “must acknowledge the de facto situation and just have a sober assessment of it.”
It’s been almost two months since Russian forces retreated from the outskirts of Kyiv, ending plans for a quick takeover, but devastation lingers. Ukrainian troops on a highway leading to Zaporizhzhia from the north diverted traffic away from a bridge that spans a dam on the Dnipro River. Officials feared that Russians missiles could hit the bridge.
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