France, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania condemned remarks made by China’s ambassador to Paris that questioned the legitimacy of former Soviet states.
in an ambitious attempt to recruit 400,000 more volunteers, Britain’s Defense Ministry
in an intelligence update Sunday, though noting that it “remains highly unlikely” officials will reach their military recruitment target. The advertisements have popped up on social media, billboards and television.For months, Ukraine and Russia have flooded Bakhmut with reinforcements and carted away thousands of dead and wounded in what has become the longest, bloodiest battle of the war.
Small teams of Ukrainian and Russian ground forces are battling for control of Bakhmut’s western edge, moving between apartment blocks. “We can attack and repel them for a day or two, or they can advance, and we have to retreat again,” a 35-year-old Ukrainian junior sergeant working on the front lines told The Washington Post. “I don’t even know, to be honest, what will happen in a week or two. … A lot of people are dying here, a lot.
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