The most intense fighting in recent days has been in eastern Ukraine, where the two sides are entrenched in a fierce battle to capture or reclaim territory.
, forced millions to flee their homes and destroyed large swaths of some cities.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Saturday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his people “embody the spirit of those who prevailed during the Second World War.” He accused Putin of trying “to twist history to attempt to justify his unprovoked and brutal war against Ukraine.” The governor of Luhansk region, one of two that make up the Donbas, said a Russian strike destroyed a school in the village of Bilogorivka where 90 people were seeking safety in the basement. Gov. Serhiy Haidai, who posted pictures of the burning rubble on the Telegram messaging app, said 30 people were rescued. Rescue work was ongoing.
Pro-Russian forces broke off the Transnistria section of Moldova in 1992, and Russian troops have been stationed there since, ostensibly as peacekeepers. More than five million people have fled Ukraine for neighboring countries since the start of the war with Russia, according to the U.N. Refugee Agency
A satellite image taken Sunday morning and analyzed by The Associated Press showed smoke rising from two sites on the island. On the island’s southern edge, a fire smoked next to debris. That corresponded to a video released by the Ukrainian military early Sunday showing its strike on a Russian helicopter that had flown to the island, possibly to aid troops wounded in attacks the day before.
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