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Russia has launched a full-scale ground attack on Ukraine's east with blasts reported across the region, officials in Kyiv have said.
A “very
large part of the entire Russian army is now focused on this offensive,"
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video address. "No matter how many
Russian troops they send there, we will fight. We will defend ourselves."
For the
last eight years, Moscow-backed rebels have fought Ukrainian soldiers in the
Donbas, a largely Russian-speaking industrial heartland in the east.
Andriy
Yermak, Zelenskyy's Chief of Staff, assured Ukrainians that their forces would
be able to hold off the attack. "Believe in our army. It is very strong," Yermak said.
Ukraine’s two provinces in the Donbas
region in the east have been targeted by the latest assault. A Reuters report said Russians seized Kreminna, a frontline town of
18,000 people in Luhansk, one of the provinces under attack.
Russians have continued long-range
attacks on other targets, including the capital, Reuters reported.
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