Ukraine marked 100 days since Russia’s invasion on Friday with fighting raging across the east of the country, where Moscow’s forces are tightening their grip on the Donbas region.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky said late Thursday Ukrainian forces had had some success in the battle for the industrial hub, which is in the Lugansk region.Lugansk regional governor Sergiy Gaiday said on Telegram that “for 100 days, they have been levelling everything”, accusing the Russians of destroying hospitals, schools and roads.
A Ukrainian flag waves over a house destroyed by shelling in the village of Moshchun, Kyiv region, on June 2, 2022 on the 99th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. – Russian forces hammered Ukrainian positions in the Donbas region on June 2, 2022 as Kyiv said Moscow was in control of 20 per cent of Ukrainian territory on the eve of the war’s 100th day.
Residents look for belongings in the rubble of their home after a strike destroyed three houses in the city of Sloviansk in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas on June 1, 2022. Led by the United States, Western nations have pumped arms and military supplies into Ukraine to help it survive the onslaught.
They are the centrepiece of a $700 million package that also includes air-surveillance radar, ammunition, helicopters and vehicles. Across the Atlantic, EU nations agreed new sanctions that would halt 90 per cent of Russian oil imports to the bloc by the end of the year.
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