Russia says its forces stopped firing near two besieged Ukrainian cities on Saturday to allow safe passage for civilians, but city officials say Moscow was not fully observing the partial ceasefire.
A Ukrainian serviceman stands at a captured Russian tank, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in the north of the Kharkiv region.Ukraine said Russian forces have focused efforts on encircling Kyiv and Kharkiv, the second-biggest city, while aiming to establish a land bridge to Crimea.
"We wanted to join NATO and the EU and this is the price we are paying, and NATO cannot protect us," she said. Russian forces have made their biggest advances in the south, where they captured their first sizeable Ukrainian city, Kherson, this week. Russia said it had destroyed 82 Ukrainian aircraft, 708 armoured vehicles, 74 multiple rocket launchers and 56 drones.
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