UPDATED. 'The enemy is retreating on some fronts and this is the result of the character of our armed forces,' Izyum Governor Oleh Sinegubov says.
KYIV/ BEZRUKY, Ukraine – Ukrainian forces have launched a counteroffensive near the Russian-held town of Izium in eastern Ukraine, a regional governor said on Saturday, May 14, in what could prove a serious setback for Moscow’s plans to capture the entire Donbas region.
Mariupol, which has seen the heaviest fighting in nearly three months of war, is now in Russian hands but hundreds of Ukrainian defenders are still holding out at the Azovstal steelworks despite weeks of heavy Russian bombardment. The war has prompted Finland and most likely Sweden to abandon their long-cherished military neutrality and seek membership of NATO .
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who spoke to Putin by phone on Friday, said he detected no sign of any change in the Russian leader’s thinking on the conflict. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday the West’s sanctions amounted to a “total hybrid war” against Moscow and that it was hard to predict how long it might last.As Russian and Ukrainian forces fought artillery duels on Saturday close to their shared border north of Kharkiv, Vera Kosolapenko, 67, wept as she stood in the still-smouldering ruins of her small home, struck by a Russian missile on Friday.
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