Ukraine replaced the Soviet emblem on the Motherland Monument, a 335-foot-tall statue that towers over Kyiv, with its own coat of arms. The change follows an effort to stamp out tributes to Russian power.
Ukraine’s military confirmed that it had struck two bridges connecting Russian-occupied Crimea to the rest of Ukraine on Sunday, part of a broader pattern of attacks on and around the peninsula aimed at scrambling critical supply routes for Moscow.
“Bit by bit, we will find a place where the seam will split open.”
New York Times journalists spent two weeks with Ukrainian troops from brigades trained and supplied by NATO to get their take on how, and where, the counteroffensive is going.
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