Ukraine battles to hold fort as Russia gears up for V-Day parade
The New Indian Express Chennai|May 09, 2022
Shelling and missile strikes intensify; Zelenskyy to meet G7 leaders; full control of Mariupol will allow Moscow to create a land bridge to Crimean peninsula
Ukraine battles to hold fort as Russia gears up for V-Day parade

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UKRAINIAN forces braced to defend their final bastion in the devastated port city of Mariupol on Sunday, desperate to deny Russia a symbolic win on the eve of Moscow's Victory Day celebrations. Shelling and missile strikes have intensified in the build up to the World War II anniversary.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy marked the anniversary on the end of the World War by comparing Ukraine's battle for national survival to the region's war of resistance against its former Nazi occupiers.

Decades after World War II, darkness has returned to Ukraine, and it has become black and white again,” Zelenskyy said, in a monochrome social media video shot against the backdrop of bombed out apartment block.

Evil has returned, in a different uniform, under different slogans, but for the same purpose,” he warned, trying to turn Russian President Vladimir Putin's anti-Nazi rhetoric back on itself.

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