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Moscow launched dozens of air strikes across eastern Ukraine overnight, its defence ministry said Tuesday, after Kyiv accused Russian forces of unleashing a major new offensive in the Donbas region.
In his nightly address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that the battle for Donbas "will surely go down in military history as one of the most brutal battles in Europe and for Europe". He adds that Ukraine has "no other choice but to move forward".
In his nightly address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that "the Russian army is trying to use additional forces in the direction of Donbas," but that the Ukrainian Donbas "stands firmly."
In his nightly address, Zelensky says that three months of war in Ukraine are "three months of war crimes by the Russian occupiers -- three months of their blows, destruction, blockade." He adds that "the occupiers want to destroy everything" in Donbas.
The battles currently being fought in eastern Ukraine could determine the whole country's fate, a Ukrainian defence ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.