“Odesa residents are not behaving as expected. This causes, of course, revenge, anger,” the spokesperson of the Odesa Oblast Military Administration said.
“They realize that they lost a blitzkrieg,” said an expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, referring to the initial Russian offensive.
Sweden’s prime minister announced his country would drop its long-held nonaligned status and join Finland in applying to the trans-Atlantic military alliance.
A Kharkiv station has become a makeshift home for people still sheltering from the prospect of Russian attacks even as Ukrainian forces push invading troops away from the crucial city.