It appears that the fight for the Donbas region is fast approaching as the last slugfest …
Both side’s are arming up…..
People are walking the streets of Kyiv….
Foreign leaders are flying in….
The civilian death toll in Mariupol and other places climbs…..
Zelensky makes his plea’s against Russia across the worlds media…
Donbas — a large swath of the country’s easternmost territory, stretching from the Luhansk oblast south to Mariupol — has been the site of fierce fighting. Moscow-backed separatists have been fighting the Ukrainian military there since 2014, and Mariupol emerged as an epicenter of violence early in Russia’s invasion in late February. The city’s mayor said Monday that more than 10,000 civilians have been killed in recent weeks, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky estimated a toll of “tens of thousands.”
Here’s what to know
image….People exit the Teatralna subway station in downtown Kyiv. Many are feeling more secure now that Russian forces have pulled away from the capital. (Serhii Korovayny for The Washington Post)