Russian forces stepped up their campaign of bombardments aimed at devastating Ukraine’s cities and towns Saturday, as the White House announced it was sending an additional $200 million in arms and equipment to help Ukraine, defying Moscow.
Soldiers fought street-by-street battles in a leafy suburb of Kyiv, the nation’s capital, and some residents wept as they dragged belongings across a destroyed bridge, trying to escape the violence. Russian forces detained the mayor of a captured city, an act that prompted hundreds of outraged residents to pour into the streets in protest.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Moscow of terrorizing the country in an attempt to break the will of the people. "A war of annihilation,” he called it.