Ukraine War Update: Russian Kamikaze Drones Attack Ukraine's Kyiv; Intense Fighting In East

Ukraine War: Russian Kamikaze Drones Attack Ukraine's Kyiv; Intense Fighting In East Russian forces attacked Ukraine's capital on Monday for the second time in a week while Russian and Ukrainian forces battled it out in heavy fighting around two towns in the Donbas region in the east, officials said. Fighting was particularly intense this weekend in Donetsk and Luhansk, which make up the industrial Donbas, and the Kherson province in the south. They constitute three of the four regions Russia said it had annexed last month after holding what it called referendums – votes that were denounced by Kyiv and Western governments as illegal and coercive. "The key hot spots in Donbas are Soledar and Bakhmut," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his nightly address on Sunday. "Very heavy fighting is going on there." Bakhmut has been a target of Russian forces in their slow move through the region since taking the twin industrial towns of Lysychansk and Sievierodonetsk in June and July. Soledar is just north of Bakhmut. Russia's defence ministry said on Sunday its forces had repelled efforts by Ukrainian troops to advance in the Donetsk, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions. Russia also said it was continuing air strikes on military and energy targets in Ukraine. Russia sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24 in what it called a "special operation" to root out what it calls dangerous nationalists. Ukrainian forces have mounted stiff resistance, with the help of arms supplied by the United States and its allies. #ukraine #trendingnews #ukrainerussiawar ------------------------ ▶24H TRENDING NEWS CHANNEL Subcribe us to update the trending news everyday. Thank you.