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Ukraine live briefing: Western allies to discuss Ukraine aid; no respite in battle for Donbas, Zelensky says
Ukraine’s calls for more advanced Western air defense systems and tanks — which have intensified after a strike on a Dnipro apartment building killed at least 40 people — will be front and center this week as top U.S. officials and allies meet in Europe to discuss support for Ukrainian forces.
The battle for Soledar, a gateway to the contested city of Bakhmut that has been the focus of recent fighting, and for control over the rest of Donbas “continues without any respite, without any stop,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly address. Russia claims to have seized the eastern salt mining town of Soledar, but Ukraine’s 46th Air Assault Brigade said Ukrainian soldiers are still fighting there.
Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
4. From our correspondents
“We want the Ukrainians to have a capability to successfully defend their country,” Gen. Mark A. Milley said in an interview with The Washington Post’s Dan Lamothe aboard a U.S. military aircraft over Europe.
About 500 soldiers will go through the initial version of training, focused on what the military calls combined-arms warfare, in which tanks, artillery, combat vehicles and other weapons are layered to maximize the violence they inflict.
Kamila Hrabchuk, Natalia Abbakumova, Paul Sonne and Isabelle Khurshudyan contributed to this report.