Ukraine's government called the latest dire warning from Moscow a sign that Putin's regime 'senses defeat' as the fighting, and the weapons shipments, intensify.
's other Western allies continue to arm the country as it battles Moscow's invading forces, the risk of the war escalating into a nuclear conflict"should not be underestimated." In an interview with Russian TV, Sergey Lavrov said that by providing weapons, NATO nations were"pouring oil on the fire" and risking"World War III."
A Ukrainian serviceman walks amid the rubble of a building heavily damaged by multiple Russian bombardments in Kharkiv, Ukraine, A pril 25, 2022.Overnight, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said it had hit about 90 more"military" targets in Ukraine, including rail facilities around the battered northeast city of Kharkiv that are vital to Ukrainian supply chains — including the ingress of foreign weapons.
But in Ukraine's east, the fight is far from over. As CBS News senior foreign correspondent Charlie D'Agata reports, there has been no rest for the remaining residents, or the firefighters in Kharkiv. Russia said its latest strikes killed 500 Ukrainian troops. That can't be independently verified, but it is clear the front-line fighting has intensified.
Zubkov is struggling to cope mentally. He said his town near Zaporizhzhia was attacked on the first day of Russia's war, and the invaders quickly quashed its defenses. Zubkov's 18-year-old daughter, whose college studies in Kyiv were derailed by the war, now wants to move to the U.S. Zubkov said he doesn't even know how she's coping with the loss of her mother. He is not.
"I called her this morning from the nurse's phone, because I know the phone number of my mom by heart. I told her that I hadn't called her for so long because I lost my phone, because I broke it, so my parents do not know what happened to me," he told CBS News"My mom is very sensitive, and if she heard that something happened to me, she would make it from Lviv to Zaporizhzhia, to here, in three minutes in order to see me.
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