Zelenskiy says outcome of battle for Donbas will determine course of the war as Russia calls on Ukrainian forces in Sievierodonetsk to lay down arms
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the outcome of the battle for the Donbas region will determine the course of the war
. Fighters should “stop their senseless resistance and lay down arms” from 8am Moscow time , Mikhail Mizintsev, head of Russia’s national defence management centre told the Interfax news agency.for trapped civilians seeking to flee intense fighting in Sievierodonetsk. Serhiy Haidai, governor of the Luhansk region, said about 500 civilians, 40 of them children, were sheltering from heavy Russian attacks in the Azot chemical plant..
, the military alliance’s chief said on Tuesday ahead of a summit in Madrid at the end of the month. Secretary general Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance needed a “more robust and combat-ready forward presence and an even higher readiness and more pre-positioned equipment and supplies.” “My message on Swedish and Finnish membership is that I strongly welcome that. It’s an historic decision. It will strengthen them, it will strengthen us,” Stoltenberg told reporters after a meeting at The Hague on Tuesday.
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