Ukraine’s presidential office announced Monday at least two civilians were killed and 10 wounded in Russian shelling over the preceding 24 hours.
In the contested eastern Donetsk area — the focus of the Russian offensive — Russian artillery struck the cities of Avdiivka, Kramatorsk and Kostiantynivka. An airstrike on Bakhmut damaged at least five homes.
“The Russians are using the scorched-earth tactics across the entire Donbas. They fire from the ground and air to wipe off entire cities,” Donetsk Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko announced in televised comments.
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Another airstrike damaged a residential building in Mykolaiv near the Black Sea, leaving several people trapped under the rubble and others hurt, among them a 16-year-old boy, according to a local official.
The Russians further struck the Kharkiv area. In Chuhuiv, an airstrike destroyed a local club, and rescue workers removed many people from under the debris.
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Kharkiv Gov. Oleh Sinyehubov condemned the attack as “senseless barbarity,” stating: “It looks like a deadly lottery when no one knows where the next strike will come.”
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As Russian forces struck Ukrainian cities, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with fellow diplomats in Cairo and openly advocated for removing Ukraine’s democratically elected leader.
Speaking at an Arab League summit on Sunday, Putin’s lackey announced Moscow is committed to helping Ukrainians “liberate themselves from the burden of this absolutely unacceptable regime.”
Lavrov accused Zelensky’s government and its Western allies of spouting propaganda to guarantee that Ukraine “becomes the eternal enemy of Russia.”
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“Russian and Ukrainian people would continue to live together. We will certainly help Ukrainian people to get rid of the regime, which is anti-people and anti-historical,” he stated.
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Lavrov’s comments were an about-face from the Kremlin’s line early in the war, when it repeatedly emphasized that Russia wasn’t attempting to overthrow Zelensky’s government, even as Moscow’s troops closed in on Kyiv.
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Russia later retreated from around the capital and turned its attention to capturing Ukraine’s industrial Donbas region in the east. The fighting is now in its sixth month.
Lavrov claimed that Russia was ready to negotiate a deal to end hostilities in March when Kyiv changed tack and declared its intention to rout Russia on the battlefield. He announced the West has encouraged Ukraine to keep fighting.
“The West insists that Ukraine must not start negotiations until Russia is defeated on the battlefield,” Lavrov stated.
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