While Vladimir Putin presented the invasion of Ukraine as the ideological successor of the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazism, Volodymyr Zelensky managed to upstage him
his barbaric war against Ukraine as a continuation of the Soviet war against Nazi Germany.
Bärbel Bas, president of the German parliament, showed up in Kyiv as well. Bono and the Edge of U2 performed with Ukrainian musicians in a metro station being used as a bomb shelter. Jill Biden, the wife of Joe Biden, America’s president, made an unexpected appearance in western Ukraine alongside Olena Zelensky, Mr Zelensky’s wife.
If Russia’s leaders thought such violence would break Ukrainians’ resolve, they were wrong. Russian-speaking cities in eastern Ukraine became bastions of resistance. In Mariupol, a port city levelled by Russia , Ukrainian fighters of a semi-independent unit called the Azov Battalion continue to hold out in tunnels underneath the giant Azovstal steel plant.
Russia has also managed to occupy or blockade Ukraine’s seaports. Before the war 90% of Ukrainian steel and grain was exported by ship. Ukraine is scrambling to find alternatives. The Russians are not having an easy time holding such towns. In Kherson, an occupied port city, Russia announced on May 6th that residents could apply for Russian passports. Few have taken up the offer; Ukrainian prosecutors have opened cases against those who have.
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