Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said the country's troops are holding on in Donbas cities, despite sustained pressure from Russian forces.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said the country's troops are holding on in cities in the Donbas, despite sustained pressure from Russian forces to control the entire eastern region.
"Access to safe drinking water has been inconsistent, while major disruption to telephone and internet services continues. There is likely a critical shortage of medicines in Kherson, while Mariupol is at risk of a major cholera outbreak," the ministry said via Twitter. The Donbas region refers to the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces in the easternmost part of Ukraine. It is a major strategic, political and economic target for the Kremlin.
Speaking at a meeting with young entrepreneurs in Moscow, Putin sought to draw a parallel between the Kremlin's raging onslaught in Ukraine and the former Russian monarch's conquest of the Baltic coast during a war against Sweden in the 18th century. In April, Zelenskyy completed the first step in obtaining European Union membership for Ukraine by submitting a lengthy questionnaire.