World Mar 06 Ukraine vows to hold Bakhmut as Russia continues fight to capture the city Less than a week ago, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the Ukrainian defenders might retreat from Bakhmut and fall back to nearby positions. But Zelenskyy’s office said Monday that he chaired a meeting in which the country’s…
World Mar 16 Encircled by Russian troops, Mariupol residents have ‘nowhere to run’ Each airstrike and shell that relentlessly pounds Mariupol – about one a minute at times in recent days – drives home the curse of a geography that has put the city squarely in the path of Russia’s domination of Ukraine.