INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country's forces were "doing everything" to stop the Russian offensive, with fierce
battles in the east and the south.Kyiv said Friday it had launched new air strikes in the captured southern region of Kherson, one of the
in the eastern Donbas region where Moscow has concentrated its firepower, especially around the eastern industrial city of
Severodonetsk."Ukrainian troops are doing everything to stop the offensive of the occupiers," Zelensky said in an address."As much as the
the front line in the south, the regional governor stressed the urgent need for international military assistance."Russia's army is more
powerful, they have a lot of artillery and ammo
For now, this is a war of artillery [...] and we are out of ammo," Vitaliy Kim said."The help of Europe and America is very, very important
because we just need ammo to defend our country."Zelensky said in his address that Ukraine must "not allow the world to divert its attention
away from what is happening on the battlefield."In the town of Lysychansk, located just across a river from Severodonetsk, people told AFP
water was by heading to a water distribution site in the town."We have to go there under shelling, and under fire," he said."This is how we
with grain waiting to be shipped.France wants "victory for Ukraine," the advisor added after Macron sparked controversy recently by
brushed off those warnings."There was no doubt and Zelensky didn't want to hear it nor did a lot of people," Biden said at a fundraiser
"I understand why they didn't want to hear it."The war has devastated Ukrainian cities and displaced millions while putting European nations
separatist authorities in the Donetsk region of the Donbas sentenced to death Britons Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, and Saadun Brahim of
humanitarian law."The United Nations warned that unfair trials of prisoners of war amounted to war crimes.Zelensky separately praised
involved in the conflict, with some officials warning of the risk of nuclear war.The world's chemical weapons watchdog said Friday it was
military operation is meant to "de-Nazify" Ukraine, suggesting he is merely taking territory back.But speaking to British university
Ukrainians were "not humans but a variety of plants or a species of animals."
