Russia’s military forces are blasting Ukraine’s capital region and other major cities as they try to crush a Ukrainian defense that has frustrated their progress nearly three weeks after invading.
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The neighboring building was also damaged. The agency reported two victims, without saying if they were injured or killed. Russian forces succeeded in occupying the city of Ivankiv, 80 kilometers north of Kyiv, and control the surrounding region on the border with Belarus, Kuleba said. Zelenskyy's office said Ukrainian forces thwarted Russian efforts to enter Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, which was pounded by almost non-stop strikes over the last 24 hours. A powerful explosion thundered across the city overnight.Hospital workers found themselves on two frontlines, battling COVID-19 in intensive care units as war rages outside.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov claimed Russian forces have destroyed 111 Ukrainian aircraft, 160 drones and more than 1,000 tanks or other military vehicles since the start of what Russia calls its “special military operation” in Ukraine. Ukrainian officials gave varying figures on how many people were successfully evacuated from Mariupol so far and how many made it to Zaporizhzhia, a city 227 kilometers west designated as the end of the evacuation route.
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