Using missiles and saboteurs, Ukraine is focusing on the city of Melitopol, a vital Russian link to Crimea, ahead of an expected southern offensive.
Tag: Zelensky, Volodymyr
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Putin Skips Annual News Conference, Avoiding Possible Questions on War
The December event has offered reporters rare — albeit stage-managed — chances to pose hard questions. With the war going poorly for Russia, that could have been awkward.
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Ukraine Faces More Outages and Strikes Russian-Controlled Melitopol
The attack on Melitopol signals the importance of longer-range weapons in Ukraine’s campaign to recapture land in the south.
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A Gray Area of Loyalties Splinters a Liberated Ukrainian Town
“Friends are not friends anymore,’’ said one woman in the town of Sviatohirsk, which remains divided not by trench lines and artillery, but by where people’s allegiances lie: with Moscow or Kyiv.
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Ukraine Drones Target Military Bases Deep in Russia, Showing Expanded Reach
Launching drones at air bases 300 miles from its own territory, Ukraine changed the geography of the war. It said it had developed drones with a range of over 600 miles.