Russia hit targets in Kyiv on Friday as its forces threatened to escalate assaults on Ukrainian command facilities in response to alleged strikes inside Russian territory, with each side gearing up for a brand new stage in the ground war within the nation’s east.
As Moscow stepped up strain on Ukraine’s capital, the destiny of Mariupol within the nation’s southeast hung within the steadiness, with Russian forces pressing their campaign to take management of the strategic port metropolis that serves as a possible hyperlink between Russia’s mainland and the Crimean Peninsula it seized from Ukraine in 2014.
