With their practices interrupted by war, two athletes from Ukraine, one a judo champion, the other the world's No. 1 high jumper, took different roads to the Paris Olympics. NBC News' Richard Engel reports.
Russian forces are staging their heaviest assaults near the strategic eastern city of Pokrovsk, Kyiv’s military said on Monday, threatening a key supply route for Ukrainian troops struggling to fend off Moscow’s 29-month-old invasion. Fighting on the Pokrovsk front was the fiercest anywhere in the war-scarred east, the General Staff said in a regular battlefield update, adding that Ukraine had fought off 52 Russian assaults there in the last 24 hours.
Russia launched its full-scale invasion in Feb. 2022 and still occupies nearly a fifth of Ukraine. Ukrainian forces repelled the Russians from the outskirts of Kyiv early in the war and recaptured territory in the east and south later in 2022. But since a failed counteroffensive in 2023 Kyiv’s troops have mainly been on the defensive this year.
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