The report did not say how he had known the city, which is regarding 575 kilometers (355 miles) southeast of the Ukrainian capital, kyiv, had fallen. The Ukrainian government did not immediately respond.
AP | Four people were killed and nine wounded on Monday in Russian strikes on the Donetsk region.
Russia’s top diplomat has warned Ukraine it risks provoking World War III and said the threat of nuclear conflict “should not be underestimated” as his country attacked rail and fuel facilities far from the front lines of Russia’s new offensive. Moscow in eastern Ukraine.
Britain’s Defense Ministry, for its part, said on Tuesday that Russian forces had taken the Ukrainian city of Kreminna, in the Luhansk region, following days of street battles.
“The city of Kreminna has allegedly fallen and heavy fighting is reported south of Izium as Russian forces attempt to advance on the cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk from the north and east,” the British military said in a tweet on Tuesday.
The report did not say how he had known the city, which is regarding 575 kilometers (355 miles) southeast of the Ukrainian capital, kyiv, had fallen. The Ukrainian government did not immediately respond.
The Ukrainian General Staff reported Russian attacks in Kharkiv, the country’s second largest city. Moscow is trying to take control of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which make up Donbas, Ukraine’s industrial heartland in the east of the country, and establish a land connection with Crimea.
In the area of Velyka Oleksandrivka, a village in the Kherson region, which is mostly controlled by the Russians, Ukrainian forces destroyed an ammunition depot and “eliminated” more than 70 soldiers, the General Staff added.
Luhansk region governor Serhiy Haidai said on the Telegram messaging app that Russian forces attacked civilians 17 times in the last 24 hours, with the cities most affected by the offensive being Popasna, Lysychansk and Girske.
Four people were killed and nine wounded on Monday in Russian attacks on the Donetsk region, its governor, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said on Telegram. Among the dead were a 9-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy.
The United States has rushed to bring more weapons to Ukraine and says assistance from Western allies is making a difference in the war that began two months ago.
“Russia is failing. Ukraine is succeeding,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday following he and the US Secretary of Defense visited kyiv to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the US wants Ukraine to remain a sovereign and democratic country, but also wants “to see Russia weakened to the point where it can’t do things like invade Ukraine.”
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