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British defense intelligence officials said that Russiaâs âcontinued failureâ to gain control of the air has âsignificantly bluntedâ its operational progress. Kremlin efforts to seize the capital, Kyiv, and topple Zelenskyâs government have so far been frustrated by Ukrainian resistance, with signs that Russian forces are digging in to maintain defensive positions around the city periphery, according to satellite images.
A protracted stalemate would âlikely be very violent and bloody,â as Russian forces continue to bomb and bombard Ukrainian cities, the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington think tank tracking the conflict in Ukraine, warned Saturday. Kremlin forces are making gains in their fierce assault on countryâs south, advancing on the besieged port city of Mariupol. At least 40 were killed after a Russian strike destroyed a military barracks in the southern city of Mykolaiv, Ukrainian officials said Saturday.
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Hereâs the status of Ukrainian cities under Russian attack
Return to menuHannah Knowles, Jon Swaine and Miriam Berger contributed to this report.
Fierce fighting continues across Ukraine as Zelensky calls for âmeaningful negotiationsâ
Return to menuZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE â President Volodymyr Zelensky defiantly told Moscow the time had come for âmeaningful negotiations on peaceâ as a barrage of Russian attacks continued across his nation over the weekend.
At least 40 people were killed when a Russian bomb hit the barracks of a military facility in the city of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine on Friday morning, according to journalists who documented the scene hours after the attack. Images verified by The Washington Post showed a multistory building folding inward on itself as giant plumes of smoke rise above it.
Vitaliy Kim, the governor of the surrounding Mykolaiv region, acknowledged the strike in a Telegram message Saturday. The Russians âviciously fired rockets at sleeping soldiers,â the caption read. He declined to state the number of soldiers dead or injured, saying he was waiting on the armed forces to provide an accurate count.
As Ukrainian forces continued to hold off Russian attempts to advance on the capital of Kyiv, Zelensky stepped up his effort to resolve the war through diplomacy, telling Moscow, âItâs time to meet. Time to talk.â
Map: Russiaâs latest advances in Ukraine
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Russian-held areas and troop movement
BELARUS
RUSSIA
POL.
Separatist-
controlled
area
Kyiv
Lviv
UKRAINE
Kryvhi Rih
Mariupol
ROMANIA
Odessa
200 MILES
Russian troops are trying to advance within
artillery range of central Kyiv.
Russian forces in the south drove north toward
Kryvyi Rih.
Russian troops continued to struggle to take
Mariupol.
Control areas as of March 19
Sources: Institute for the Study of War,
AEI's Critical Threats Project, Post reporting
Russian-held areas
and troop movement
RUSSIA
BELARUS
Chernihiv
POLAND
Sumy
Kyiv
Lviv
Russian troops are trying to advance within artillery range of central Kyiv.
Kharkiv
UKRAINE
Kryvyi Rih
Separatist-
controlled
area
Kherson
ROMANIA
Mariupol
Odessa
Russian troops continued to struggle to take Mariupol.
Sea of
Azov
Russian forces in the south drove north toward Kryvyi Rih.
100 MILES
Crimea
Annexed by Russia
in 2014
Active nuclear power plants with power-generating capabilities
Black Sea
Control areas as of March 19
Sources: Institute for the Study of War, AEI's Critical Threats Project, Post reporting
Russian-held areas
and troop movement
BELARUS
RUSSIA
Chernihiv
POLAND
Sumy
Kyiv
Russian troops are trying to advance within artillery range of central Kyiv.
Lviv
Kharkiv
UKRAINE
Separatist-
controlled
area
Russian forces in the south drove north toward Kryvyi Rih.
Kryvyi Rih
Mykolaiv
Mariupol
Russian troops continued to struggle to take Mariupol.
Kherson
ROMANIA
Odessa
Sea of
Azov
Crimea
Annexed by Russia
in 2014
Black
Sea
Active nuclear power plants with power-generating capabilities
100 MILES
Control areas as of March 19
Sources: Institute for the Study of War, AEI's Critical Threats Project, Post reporting
Russian forces in the south of Ukraine on Saturday drove north, toward Kryvyi Rih.
On the periphery of the capital, Kyiv, Russian troops tried to advance within artillery range of the central-Ukrainian city.
Russian troops continued to struggle to take Mariupol, which remains under Ukrainian control but has been cut off from aid for weeks.
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