“Atrocities against civilians. Thousands of casualties, with the toll rising. Millions of refugees. Thriving cities besieged and reduced to rubble. Ukrainians continue to resist the Russian onslaught. Joined by civilians who have picked up arms, Ukrainian forces held on to Kyiv, the capital, and forced the Russian military to change its strategy, shifting its attention to the east. On the vast expanse of wide-open flatland, the war has bogged down in fierce artillery duels and hard-fought battles for coal mining and farming towns in the Donbas region, as most of the civilian population has already fled. In mostly deserted towns, authorities trucked in water and food, while volunteers evacuated stragglers, many of them elderly or disabled. ...”
The remains of Russian military vehicles in the town of Bucha, close to Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday. Day 6.
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