Ukrainian authorities are preparing for an anticipated major offensive in the country’s east, with a new general leading Russian forces.
Here’s the latest:
- Ukraine “ready”: During a Sunday night address to the nation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russia would launch full-scale combat actions in the east, but said: “we are ready.” He also accused the Russian leadership of “lying” in an attempt to shift responsibility for the war. “They have destroyed the lives of millions. They started a full-scale war and act as if we are to blame for this,” he said.
- Train station strike: The death toll has risen to 57 from a Russian missile strike Friday on a railway station in Kramatorsk that was being used by civilians trying to flee the fighting. Clean-up operations at the site have begun, with workers gathering debris, scattered documents, and human remains.
- Russia-Ukraine talks: Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Sunday it would be “extremely difficult” to even think about negotiations after alleged Russian atrocities, citing Kramatorsk and the town of Bucha, where the mayor estimates as many as 300 people died under Russia’s occupation. However, Kuleba, said, if talks can help prevent “at least one massacre … I have to take that opportunity.”
- Evacuation corridors: Nine routes were agreed for Sunday, covering the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia.
- New general: Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed a new general to direct the war after troops failed to take Kyiv, according to US and European officials. The new general was the first commander of Russia’s military operations in Syria, after Putin sent troops there in September 2015 to back the Syrian regime. Under the general’s command, Russian aircraft laid siege to rebel-held eastern Aleppo, causing major civilian casualties.
- Nuclear shift change: Staff at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant have carried out just their second rotation since the invasion began. Russian forces withdrew from the plant on March 31, and it is now under Ukrainian control — but the Russians left labs and equipment destroyed and looted, authorities say.
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