Russia has ratcheted up its battle for control of Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland in what officials on both sides described as a new phase of the war.
An aerial view shows a crater and destroyed homes in the village of Yatskivka, eastern Ukraine on April 16, 2022. Russia ratcheted up its battle for control of Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland, intensifying assaults on cities and towns along a front hundreds of miles long in what officials on both sides described asAfter a Russian push to the capital failed to overrun the city, the Kremlin declared that its main goal was the capture of the eastern Donbas region.
In what appeared to be an intensification of attacks, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said that air-launched missiles destroyed 13 Ukrainian troop and weapons locations while the air force struck 60 other Ukrainian military facilities, including missile warhead storage depots. Russian artillery hit 1,260 Ukrainian military facilities and 1,214 troops concentrations over the last 24 hours. The claims could not be independently verified.
The assaults began that day along a boomerang-shaped front that stretches more than 300 miles from northeastern Ukraine to the country's southeast. Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s national security council, said that the defensive line had held elsewhere. Shelling continued there and Russia issued a fresh ultimatum Tuesday to the Ukrainian troops holed up there to surrender, saying those who come out will "keep their lives." The Ukrainians have ignored previous such offers.
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