Ukraine's defence minister says Kyiv's forces are ready 'to a high percentage' to use the hundreds of tanks and armoured vehicles sent by the West to launch an 'iron fist' counteroffensive
Along hundreds of kilometres of front, Russia has been fortifying its territory for months in anticipation of Kyiv's planned assault, widely expected once warmer weather dries out Ukraine's notorious sucking black mud.
Ukraine made swift gains throughout the second half of 2022, but has kept its forces on the defensive for the past five months.using hundreds of thousands of freshly called-up reservists and convicts recruited as mercenaries from jailBut despite the heaviest ground combat in Europe since World War II, Moscow captured little additional territory, focusing mainly on the small mining city of Bakhmut where Ukrainians have withstood for almost a year.
Kyiv and its Western military backers hope a push by thousands of Ukrainian troops trained at Western bases, using hundreds of newly donated tanks and armoured vehicles, will shift the dynamics of the war.In the central town of Uman, firefighters battled a blaze at a residential apartment building struck on an upper floor by a Russian missile.Rescue workers clambered through a huge pile of smouldering rubble, carrying a body away on a stretcher.
Mr Lubivskyi wept as he took a deep drag from a cigarette and looked up at the smouldering gaps in the building where adjacent flats had been blasted away.Russian missiles hit several locations across Ukraine in the largest air strike in months.Russia had launched such attacks almost weekly for most of the winter, but they tapered off as spring arrived, with Western countries saying Moscow was running out of missiles.
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