Odesa hit by missiles but Ukraine launches counter-offensive in north; Kyiv claims one of their drones has sunk another enemy ship in Black Sea
The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy condemned Russia’s targeting of Ukrainian cultural monuments and institutions, saying that “nearly 200 cultural heritage sites already” had been damaged or destroyed.
“Every day of this war, the Russian army does something that is beyond words. But every next day it does something that makes you feel it in a new way.”With supplies running low, amputations conducted in a ramshackle clinic, and corpses piling up, the fighters trapped at the besieged steel plant inMariupol are battling to hold on as Russian forces tighten their grip on the city’s last redoubt.
“I’ll be standing until the end,” Tytarenko’s husband and medic Mykhailo texted to her on Friday, in a message shared with AFP. “Commanders have already said their farewells to their wives. One of them messaged his wife: ‘Don’t cry. We’ll be back home in any case - alive or dead’,” said Tytarenko.
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