Russia has signalled it may dial back its war aims to focus on eastern Ukraine after failing to break the nation's resistance in a month of fighting.
KYIV - Russia has signalled it may dial back its war aims to focus on eastern Ukraine after failing to break the nation's resistance in a month of fighting and attacks on civilians, including up to 300 feared killed in the bombing of a theatre.
His surprise statement came as a Western official reported that a seventh Russian general, Lieutenant General Yakov Rezanstev, had died in Ukraine and that a colonel had been "deliberately" killed by his own demoralised men. "Are democracies going to prevail... or are autocracies going to prevail? And that's really what's at stake," Biden said.
Authorities said they fear some 300 civilians in Mariupol may have died in a Russian air strike on a theatre being used as a bomb shelter last week. One Mariupol resident who already left the city, 33-year-old Oksana Vynokurova, described leaving behind a hellscape. Rudskoi's announcement of a pivot to the battle for eastern Ukraine was accompanied by claims of success.
Britain's defence ministry said Ukrainian counterattacks are underway near Kyiv and a Pentagon official said Ukrainian forces were also attempting to recapture Kherson, the only major city held by Russian invasion troops.
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