Ukraine’s president says air defences must quadruple to halt Russian advance as morale falls among troops
Zelenskiy said Russian troops advanced between five to 10km along the north-eastern border before being stopped by Ukrainian forces, but added that
However, authorities scrapped a proposal to grant soldiers who have served for more than 36 months the option to be discharged. “We are in a nonsense situation where the west is afraid that Russia will lose the war. And it does not want Ukraine to lose it,” he said., said during a trip to China this week the north-eastern offensive was in retaliation for Ukraine’s shelling of border regions and that Moscow was trying to create a “security zone”.
Ukrainian officials have accused Russian soldiers in Vovchansk of capturing dozens of civilians and using them as “human shields” to defend their command headquarters – a claim AFP was not able to immediately verify.
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