It has been three months since Russia invaded Ukraine, and things that looked certain back then, don’t now.
Ukraine war – the latest news
Fighting has intensified in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. Russiantroops pressed their advance on Severodonetsk, where local officials accused them using “scorched-earth” tactics.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy says up to 100 Ukrainian troops could be dying daily. And last week Russia officially captured the port city of Mariupol after more than 1,500 Ukrainian troops from the Azovstal steel plant surrendered. By controlling Mariupol, Russia has a land bridge to Crimea, territory it annexed from Ukraine in 2014. It now controls the entire north shore of the Sea of Azov. Mariupol was a major site for exporting Ukrainian steel and grain.
Last week Finland and Sweden formally applied for NATO membership, giving up decades of neutrality...
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