“We must prepare for the fact that it could take years. We must not let up in supporting Ukraine,” Secretary-general of the military alliance Jens Stoltenberg said.
The war in Ukraine could last for years, the head of NATO said on Sunday, as Russia stepped up its assaults after the European Union recommended that Kyiv become a candidate to join the bloc.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who visited Kyiv on Friday, also spoke of a need to prepare for a long war. That would put Ukraine on course to realize an aspiration seen as out of reach before Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion, even if membership could take years.The industrial city of Sievierodonetsk, a prime target in Moscow’s offensive to seize full control of Luhansk – one of the two provinces making up the Donbas – faced heavy artillery and rocket fire again, the Ukrainian military said.
Analysts at the Washington Institute for the Study of War think tank wrote that “Russian forces will likely be able to seize Sievierodonetsk in the coming weeks, but at the cost of concentrating most of their available forces in this small area”. Russian missiles hit a gasworks in the district of Izyum to the northwest, and Russian rockets raining on a suburb of Kharkiv, the second-largest city, hit a municipal building, caused a fire, but no casualties, Ukrainian authorities said.
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