‘The battle for Donbas has begun’: Russia launches offensive in eastern Ukraine
by Lorenzo Tondo in Kyiv and Isobel Koshiw in Dnipro from World news | The Guardian on (#5YAHA)
Volodymyr Zelenskiy strikes defiant note as rocket and artillery fire targets 300-mile frontline in region
Russia has launched its long-anticipated offensive in Ukraine's east, with Moscow announcing that its forces had carried out one of the largest barrages of strikes since the beginning of the invasion.
A total of 1,260 military targets were hit by rockets and artillery overnight along the 300-mile frontline in the Donbas and Kharkiv regions, according to Russian officials, including the strategically important town of Slovyansk and other cities close to the eastern frontline.
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