Russian and Ukrainian troops engaged in close-quarter combat in an eastern Ukraine city on May 29 as Moscow’s soldiers, supported by intense shelling, attempted to gain strategic footholds in the region while facing fierce Ukrainian resistance. Ukrainian regional officials reported that Russian forces were “storming” the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk, where the fighting has knocked out power and cellphone services …
Having failed to capture Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, early in the war, the Russians set out to seize parts of the eastern industrial region Donbas not already controlled by pro-Moscow separatists Kramatorsk, Ukraine: Russia claimed to have overrun a key rail hub while its troops fought Ukrainian defenders in the streets of another city in eastern Ukraine. In the call with …
KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — As Russia asserted progress in its goal of seizing the entirety of contested eastern Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin tried Saturday to shake European resolve to punish his country with sanctions and to keep supplying weapons that have supported Ukraine’s defense. Russian-held areas of the southern Kherson region have shifted to Moscow time and “will no longer switch …
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