Russian forces have continued rolling up villages in the east and south of Ukraine on Saturday and Sunday. A full battlefield press has continued even amid President Trump’s efforts to get all sides at the negotiating table.
First, on Saturday Russia’s defense ministry announced the capture of the two villages of Shchebraki in the southern Zaporizhzhia region and Panteleimonivka in the eastern Donetsk region.
“Russia is making a mockery of peacekeeping efforts around the world. It is dragging out the war and sowing terror because it still feels no real pressure,” Zelensky has said, condemning also stepped up drone strikes.
For example in the overnight and early Saturday hours there had been over 170 drones launched on Ukraine. Four people had been killed in Dnipro after a strike hit a hotel, injuring an additional 21 – including a pregnant woman.
On Sunday another key village was captured which lies less than ten kilometers from Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region. This particular boundary has not yet been breached after more than three years of war. […]
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