Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his government was ordering the mandatory evacuation of people in the eastern Donetsk region, scene of fierce fighting with Russia. | Natalia Zinets and Pavel Polityuk
Vereshchuk says region’s natural gas supplies destroyed.Ukraine: rail links to Kherson over Dnipro river cut.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his government was ordering the mandatory evacuation of people in the eastern Donetsk region, scene of fierce fighting with Russia.
Zelensky said hundreds of thousands of people were still living in areas of Donbas where fighting was fierce. Earlier on Saturday, Ukraine’s military said more than 100 Russian soldiers had been killed and seven tanks destroyed in fighting in the south on Friday, including the Kherson region that is the focus of Kyiv’s counteroffensive in that part of the country and a key link in Moscow’s supply lines.
Defence and intelligence officials from Britain, which has been one of Ukraine’s staunchest allies since Moscow invaded its neighbour on February 24, portrayed Russian forces as struggling to maintain momentum.Ukraine has used Western-supplied long-range missile systems to badly damage three bridges across the Dnipro in recent weeks, cutting off Kherson city and - in the assessment of British defence officials - leaving Russia’s 49th Army highly vulnerable on the river’s west bank.
On Friday the British ministry described the Russian government as “growing desperate”, having lost tens of thousands of soldiers in the war. British MI6 foreign intelligence agency chief Richard MooreUkraine and Russia have traded accusations over a missile strike or explosion early on Friday that appeared to have killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war in the front-line town of Olenivka, held by Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Donetsk.
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