Russian Ukraine News Update Direct | The Mayor of Port City of Mariupol, which was surrounded placed the number of civilians killed there at more than 5,000 on Wednesday, as Ukraine collected evidence of Russian cruelty on the ruined edges of Kyiv and prepared for what could be a climax battle for the control of the East Government State Industry
In other developments, the US and its Western allies moved to impose new sanctions against the Kremlin for what they fond on war crimes.
And Russia completed the withdrawal of all estimated 24,000 troops or more than the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions in the north, send them to Belarus or Russia to supply back and reset, a US defense official said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelskyy warned that Moscow is now marshaling reinforcements and trying to push deeper east of the country, where the Kremlin said the goal was to “free” Donbas, most of the Heartland of the Ukrainian industry.
“The fate of our land and our people are being decided. We know what we are fighting for. And we will do everything to win,” Zelskyy said, six weeks into the war.
Ukrainian authorities urge people who live in Donbas to be evacuated now, in front of the upcoming Russian offensive, while there is still time.