KYIV/LONDON: Ukraine on Monday (May 15) hailed its first substantial battlefield advances for six months as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy won pledges of new long-range drones in Britain to add to a haul of Western arms for a counteroffensive against Russian invaders. Since last week, the Ukrainian military
KYIV/LONDON: Ukraine on Monday hailed its first substantial battlefield advances for six months as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy won pledges of new long-range drones in Britain to add to a haul of Western arms for a counteroffensive against Russian invaders.
In its evening battlefield update on Monday, Ukraine's army General Staff said Russian forces were pressing efforts backed by heavy shelling to gain ground but had failed to advance around the village of Ivanivske on the city's western fringes. Zelenskyy met British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London on Monday, the latest stop in a tour that brought him to Rome, Berlin and Paris over the past three days, pocketing major new pledges of weapons along the way.
Ukrainian forces drove Russian troops back from the capital Kyiv a year ago, and recaptured ground in two major offensives in the second half of 2022, but have since endured a punishing Russian assault while waiting for arms to arrive.
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