Two old women sit on a bench in front of their flats in a state of resignation, the ground beneath them littered with shards of glass, bits of wood and metal fragments. Every window in their brutalist Soviet-era building is either cracked or blown out. The front door hangs precipitously from its hinges, waiting to fall. As bad as it.
On July 20, Sergey Lavrov, minister of foreign affairs for the Russian Federation, declared that Moscow had new objectives in Ukraine, as it now wants to expand its gains beyond the borders of the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics” by capturing Kherson, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia regions. Lavrov underlined Western military equipment transfer and the alleged need to protect the …
SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) -Russian forces struck a market and a residential area in the city of Sloviansk in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, killing at least two people and injuring seven, according to officials.