Ukraine president expects Russia attacks to intensify with EU summit this week

KYIV: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy predicted Russia will escalate its attacks this week as European Union leaders consider whether to back his country's bid to join the bloc and Russia presses its campaign to win control of east Ukraine.

The EU's embrace of Ukraine would interfere with one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's stated goals when he ordered his troops into Ukraine: To keep Moscow's southern neighbour out of the West's sphere of influence. Luhansk Governor Serhiy Gaidai told Ukrainian television that a Russian attack on Toshkivka, 35km south of Sievierodonetsk, also"had a degree of success". TASS, citing an aide to the interior minister of the Luhansk People's Republic, reported Toshkivka had been"liberated".

Both Russia and Ukraine have continued heavy bombardment around Sievierodonetsk"with little change to the frontline", Britain's Ministry of Defence said on Sunday. Russia has said it launched what it calls a"special military operation" to disarm its neighbour and protect Russian speakers there from dangerous nationalists.In Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, northwest of Luhansk, Russia's defence ministry said its Iskander missiles had destroyed weaponry recently supplied by Western countries.

Ukraine's general staff said Russia had deployed an anti-aircraft missile division in Bryansk and had up to three battalion tactical groups were covering the border in the Bryansk and neighbouring Kursk regions.

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