Ukraine's military digs in for eastern offensive as Russia prepares new weapons
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Sunday in a nightly address that this week will be as crucial as any during the war, saying “Russian troops will move to even larger operations in the east of our state.”
“He has the list,” Zelenskyy said. “President Biden can enter history as the person who stood shoulder to shoulder with the Ukrainian people who won and chose the right to have their own country. also depends on him.” Questions remain about the ability of depleted and demoralized Russian forces to conquer much ground after their advance on the capital, Kyiv, was repelled by determined Ukrainian defenders. Britain's Defense Ministry says Russia is trying to compensate for mounting casualties by recalling veterans discharged in the past decade.
Buzova is near Bucha, another of the towns near Kyiv, where hundreds of bodies, many with their hands bound and signs of torture, were found after the Russian retreat. Russia has falsely claimed the scenes in Bucha were staged. U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan, speaking Sunday on CNN's “State of the Union,” played down the appointment's significance.
Newly released Maxar Technologies satellite imagery showed an 8-mile convoy of military vehicles headed south through Ukraine to Donbas, recalling images of the convoy that stalled outside Kyiv before Russia gave up trying to take the capital. Missiles twice struck the airport in Dnipro, Ukraine's fourth-largest city, on Sunday, the regional governor said.
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