The head of the U.N. atomic energy watchdog said Kyiv and Moscow are both committing more troops to the region surrounding the Zaporizhzhia plant. Follow our live updates.
has refused to join Kyiv’s Western allies in condemning Moscow for the invasion of Ukraine, instead shoring up its oil and other trade with Russia while calling for peace.Zelensky said that if Russian forces capture the eastern city of Bakhmut, Putin will sell the victory “to the West, to his society, to China, to Iran.”
A defeat there would also greatly add to pressure on Ukraine to compromise with Russia, he told the Associated Press. TheThe fierce battle for Bakhmut has caused extensive damage to the Ukrainian army and the Wagner Group, the Russian mercenary outfit’s head, Yevgeniy Prigozhin, said in an audio message posted to social media this week. He vowed to keep fighting for the city, the battle over which has assumed a symbolic significance for both sides, analysts say.
More than 220,000 Russian troops and mercenaries have been killed or injured in Ukraine, British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said
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