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Almost three months after Russia invaded Ukraine, its military faces a bogged-down war, the prospect of a bigger NATO and an opponent buoyed by its wins on ...

The German delegates told him Ukraine will “inevitably” be granted EU candidate status, Kuleba said Sunday. However, the country has taken steps to join the European Union. While international law recognizes legal uses of phosphorus and other incendiary munitions on the battlefield, it bars their use to directly target enemy personnel or civilians. The invasion of Ukraine has other countries along Russia’s flank worried they could be next. The assessments of Russia’s war performance by Ukraine’s supporters came as Russian troops retreated from around Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, after bombarding it for weeks. But it appeared to be a back-and-forth slog without major breakthroughs on either side. The Ukrainian military said Sunday that it had held off a renewed Russian offensive in the Dontesk area of the Donbas. Russian troops also tried to advance near the eastern city of Izyum early Sunday, but Ukrainian forces stopped them, the governor of Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, Oleh Sinegubov, reported. Britain’s Defense Ministry said in its daily intelligence update Sunday that the Russian army had lost up to one-third of the combat strength it committed to Ukraine in late February and was failing to gain any substantial territory. Ukraine said it held off Russian offensives Sunday in the country's east, and Western military officials said the campaign Moscow launched there after its forces failed to seize Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, had slowed to a snail's pace. Even with its setbacks, Russia continues to inflict death and destruction across Ukraine. Over the weekend, its forces hit a chemical plant and 11 high-rise buildings in Siverodonetsk, in the Luhansk area of the Donbas, the regional governor said. KYIV, Ukraine -- Almost three months after Russia shocked the world by invading Ukraine, its military faced a bogged-down war, the prospect of a bigger NATO and an opponent buoyed Sunday by its wins on and off the battlefield. Almost three months after Russia invaded Ukraine, its military faces a bogged-down war, the prospect of a bigger NATO and an opponent buoyed by its wins on and off the battlefield

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Ukrainian forces have launched a counteroffensive near the Russian-held town of Izium in eastern Ukraine, Reuters reported on Saturday. This could prove a serious setback for Moscow’s plans to capture the entire Donbas region. Russian forces have focused much of their firepower on the Donbas in a “second phase” of their invasion that was announced on April 19, after they failed to reach the capital Kyiv from the north in the early weeks of the war. Meanwhile, Group of Seven foreign ministers vowed on Saturday to reinforce Russia’s economic and political isolation, continue supplying weapons to Ukraine and tackle what Germany’s foreign minister described as a “wheat war” being waged by Moscow.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says Russia's war in Ukraine is not going as Moscow had planned.

Russia is pummelling positions in the east of Ukraine, its defence ministry has said, as it seeks to encircle Ukrainian forces in the battle for Donbas and fend off a counteroffensive around the strategic Russian-controlled city of Izium. - Russia pummels positions in the east of Ukraine as it seeks to encircle Ukrainian forces in the battle for Donbas. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says Russia’s war in Ukraine is not going as Moscow had planned as Russia pummels positions in the east of Ukraine.

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Zelenskiy has warned that the war in his country risks triggering global food shortages and has urged international intervention to prevent global famine. As Russian forces struggle in Ukraine, Ukrainian forces made inroads. UK defence chiefs said Russia’s offensive in the eastern Donbas region had “lost momentum” and that Moscow’s battle plan was “significantly behind schedule”.

Meanwhile, Moscow's forces are trying to stave off Ukraine's advance toward the Russian border near Kharkiv, Ukrainian military officials said. Russia is also ...

In the southern port city of Mariupol, Zelensky said, Ukrainians “continue very complicated and delicate negotiations to save our people.” Civilians were recently evacuated from a steel plant where Ukrainian soldiers remain isolated and under assault, officials say. Almost three months into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Moscow’s forces are stalled in eastern regions that President Vladimir Putin promised to “liberate.” In Donbas, which Russia no longer recognizes as part of Ukraine, Moscow’s gains have been limited. The weapons: Ukraine is making use of weapons such as Javelin antitank missiles and Switchblade “kamikaze” drones, provided by the United States and other allies. Ukrainian troops appear to have forced a Russian withdrawal in Kharkiv and are launching counterattacks near the northeastern city with the aim of disrupting supply lines and making it harder for Moscow to encircle Kyiv’s forces and capture the entire Donbas region, analysts and local officials say. Meanwhile, Moscow’s forces are trying to stave off Ukraine’s advance toward the Russian border near Kharkiv, Ukrainian military officials said. Kharkiv: Ukrainian forces have mounted a counterattack in the area, pushing away Russian troops, officials say. Others turned their faces to the sun and enjoyed a moment of calm between explosions. Zaporizhzhia: In this southeastern region, the front lines have almost completely frozen — with both sides effectively in stalemate, a Pentagon intelligence official said last week. Kyiv: A wartime curfew began an hour later starting Sunday, as the capital treads cautiously toward some semblance of normalcy. One by one, they took a knee to test their rocket-propelled grenades as watching comrades cracked jokes. Ukrainian officials say they are negotiating with Russians to release wounded fighters. “Rest while you can.”

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Get the latest updates here. Fighting. Russian forces are targeting civilian and military sites in multiple towns in the Donetsk region including Dovhenke, ...

- Zelenskyy urged European leaders to impose more sanctions on Russia and its energy sector claiming “the time of Europe’s dependence on Russian energy resources is coming to an end”. - Ukrainian PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyycondemned the attacks in Donetsk and said Russian troops are at “a dead end” in Ukraine. - Russian forces are targeting civilian and military sites in multiple towns in the Donetsk region including Dovhenke, Ruski Tyshki, Ternova and Petrivka, the Ukrainian military said.

Russian and Ukrainian fighters are battling village-by-village for Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland, the Donbas. Ukrainian soldiers have fought Moscow- ...

McConnell is leading a delegation to the region of Republican Party senators, who made a surprise visit to Kyiv on Saturday. The band's frontman, Oleh Psiuk, said at a news conference Sunday that the musicians were "ready to fight" when they return home. The women said the troops were suffering from a lack of food, water and medicine. Russian troops were retreating from around Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city and a key military objective earlier in the war. An announcement by the cabinet was expected to follow. Russian missiles also destroyed "military infrastructure facilities" in the Yavoriv district of western Ukraine, near the Polish border, the Lviv region's governor said. Airstrikes and artillery barrages make it extremely dangerous for reporters to move around, and both Ukraine and the Moscow-backed separatists fighting in the east have introduced tight restrictions on reporting from the combat zone. Over the weekend, Russian forces hit a chemical plant and 11 high-rise buildings in Siverodonetsk, in the Donbas, regional Gov. Serhii Haidaii said. The Ukrainian military said it stopped a renewed Russian offensive in the Donetsk area of the Donbas. It also blew up two railway bridges that had been seized by Russian forces in the eastern region of Luhansk, Ukraine's Special Operations Command said Sunday. The aim was to prevent Russia from bringing in more troops to attack the towns of Lisichansk and Severodonetsk. One said the unit went "to the dividing line with the Russian Federation, the occupying country. Mr. President, we have reached it. On Sunday, a Ukrainian battalion in the Kharkiv region reached the Russian border and made a victorious video there addressed to President Volodymyr Zelensky. The video posted on Facebook by Ukraine's Ministry of Defence shows a dozen fighters around a post covered with blue and yellow, Ukraine's colours.

Ukrainian forces say they have pushed back the Russian military in the region around Kharkiv while attention is on Russia's reaction to Finland's NATO bid.

"Russia's war in Ukraine is not going as Moscow had planned," he said at a press conference. "This is going to go down on a list of huge blunders by President Putin and the Kremlin," he said. ... The unconditional victory still remains the way forward." His comments came after Finland announced it would apply to join the military alliance in what marks a historic move for the traditionally neutral Nordic country. "The 227th Battalion of the 127th Brigade of the Territorial Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of Kharkiv city pushed back the Russians and reached a section of the state border," the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine posted on "But we are not overoptimistic in that regard," she said in an interview on ABC's "This Week." "We see that Putin has readjusted his strategy, and the only possible winning scenario for him is a long-lasting war, which is not the case for us and the democratic world. On Sunday, Ukraine's military said it is preparing for more Russian attacks around Izyum, a city to the south of Kharkiv that's become a focus of fighting in recent days. Ukrainian forces say they have pushed back the Russian military in the region around Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine, and near the border with Russia. "Belarusian President Lukashenko is likely balancing support for Russia's invasion with a desire to avoid direct military participation with the risk of Western sanctions, Ukrainian retaliation and possible dissatisfaction in the Belarusian military," the ministry said. "This is so good for the alliance, but it's also good for both countries and for all of Europe," he said. Ukrainian forces say they have pushed back the Russian military in the region around Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine, and near the border with Russia, continuing a counteroffensive that has prompted Russian troops to withdraw from around Ukraine's second-largest city. "The presence of Belarusian forces near the border will likely fix Ukrainian troops, so they cannot deploy in support of operations in the Donbas," the U.K.'s Ministry of Defence said in an intelligence update on Twitter Monday.

Independent analysts and Ukrainian officials say Russian forces are focusing on securing a smaller portion of eastern Ukraine. NATO plans to fast track the ...

“It’s a decision for the Ukrainians to make — my definition of victory is whatever Zelensky and the Ukrainians conclude is a satisfactory end,” he said. At the same time, NATO is poised to expand along Russian borders after Finland’s decision to apply for membership in the Western military alliance. Finland shares a border with Russia, and, on Saturday, a Russian energy company halted the export of electricity to the country. “For NATO to decide to provide a security guarantee or to even intervene militarily does not require an Article Five commitment,” said Mr. Daalder, president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, a research institute. The village of Andriivka, near Kyiv, was heavily destroyed when Russian forces occupied the area and were then pushed out under Ukrainian bombardment. But after the initial pause, wealthier Russians have found ways to resume vacationing in popular destinations such as France and Italy, compounding an apparent sense of normalcy. “In the history of McDonald’s, it was one of our proudest and most exciting milestones,” Mr. Kempczinski wrote. He added: “Some might argue that providing access to food and continuing to employ tens of thousands of ordinary citizens is surely the right thing to do. McDonald’s said in March that it would temporarily close its operations there, as did several other chains, including Starbucks and Yum Brands, the parent company of KFC and Pizza Hut. Many employees and activists have pushed for a full retrenchment. As globalist aspirations have fractured in recent years amid the coronavirus pandemic and geopolitical tensions, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has forced many companies that hoped to operate as normal to take action. He will also address the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, later this month to discuss reconstruction of Ukraine when the war is over. Mr. Haidai said on Sunday that Sievierodonetsk was hit with artillery barrages that killed two people and damaged a chemical plant, a school, a hospital and residences.