![]() This week the small city of Kreminna, home to 18,000 people, in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region fell. Russia’s nearly eight-week-long invasion has failed to capture any of Ukraine’s largest cities, forcing Moscow to refocus in and around separatist regions. Thousands of Russian troops backed by artillery and rocket barrages are advancing in what Ukrainian officials have called the Battle of the Donbas. Russia has denied using banned weapons or targeting civilians in its invasion of Ukraine and says, without evidence, that signs of atrocities were staged. ![]() Deliberately killing civilians, destroying residential quarters and civilian infrastructure, and using all kinds of weapons, including those prohibited by international conventions, is already the brand signature of the Russian army.” ![]() In his latest address on Tuesday night, Zelenskiy said: “The Russian army will forever inscribe itself in world history as perhaps the most barbaric and inhuman army in the world. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has promised that his forces in Mariupol would “fight to the end” and ignore any surrender ultimatums from Moscow but that the situation there was “as severe as possible” because Russian forces were blocking humanitarian corridors from being set up. A previous offer was made and rejected on Tuesday, Russia said. Russia said it would begin a ceasefire at 2pm Moscow time on Wednesday (midday BST) and claimed it would let fighters surrender and leave unharmed. “We ask them to use the procedure of extraction and take us to the territory of a third-party state.” “We appeal and plead to all world leaders to help us,” Volyna said in the video. “The enemy is outnumbering us 10 to one,” Serhiy Volyna from the 36th Separate Marine Brigade said, sheltering at the vast plant with underground tunnels where Ukrainian defenders are pinned down by Russian fighters. A commander for the Ukrainian marines in Mariupol said his forces were “maybe facing our last days, if not hours” and appealed for extraction in a Facebook post published early on Wednesday.
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