Kyiv Challenges Russian Claims of Major Advances Along Donetsk Frontline

Fresh Western aid allocations will only ‘lead to new victims on the Ukrainian side,’ Moscow says after US Senate greenlights $60 billion aid package for Kyiv.

Ukrainian tank crews take part in a drill in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Dec. 15, 2023. Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images

Russia has announced the capture of a second village in the eastern Donetsk region—in as many days—but officials in Kyiv insist that the fighting continues.

“We are not going to move anywhere but forward,” Yevhen Shmataliuk, commander of a Ukrainian assault brigade, said in an April 22 interview.