![]() To the south, in the devastated port city of Mariupol, depleted Ukrainian forces are defending their final bastion at the Azovstal steelworks, from which scores of civilians have been evacuated in recent days.Īn AFP reporter in the city of Zaporizhzhia said Sunday that eight buses carrying 174 civilians - including 40 evacuated from the plant – had arrived in that Ukrainian-controlled city. "Bombs fell on the school," he said on Telegram, "and unfortunately it was completely destroyed." 'Surrender is not an option' Lugansk region governor Sergiy Gaiday said rescuers were searching for survivors in the debris left by the Russian attack on the school there, though the outlook was bleak. President Vladimir Putin is set to flaunt Russia's power in celebration of Victory Day, in an event that has taken on great prominence as he seeks to justify a war that has gone on far longer – and at far higher cost – than expected.īut as huge missiles are towed through Moscow's Red Square and a planned flyover will feature fighter jets showing support for the war, Ukraine will be desperately battling to stop a hoped-for military breakthrough.Īnd civilians continue to bear the brunt of the bloodshed, with President Volodymyr Zelensky confirming that 60 were killed in a Russian air strike on a school in the eastern village of Bilogorivka – one of the highest one-day tolls since Moscow's forces invaded on February 24. Russia will celebrate its 1945 victory over Nazi Germany on Monday with a show of military might as its army battles Kyiv's forces in the east of Ukraine, where 60 people were killed in an air strike on a school sheltering civilians.
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