Ukraine is not willing to give up territory in the eastern part of the country to end the war with Russia, and Ukraine's military is prepared to fight Moscow's military in the Donbas region in a battle he says could influence the course of the entire war.
The Russian forces are erasing the letter Z from their military hardware, setting up Ukrainian flags, in an apparent preparation for provocations in Zaporizhia region.
In the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, residents are beginning to lose any illusions they might have had about Russia.
After President Volodymyr Zelensky's interview with the BBC, Russian propaganda scrambled to "deny" the use of mobile crematoria by invaders in Ukraine.
In the occupied Crimea, the authorities intend to set up so-called retraining camps for teachers from Kherson, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhia regions in order to shift them toward "Russian teaching standards."
The clergy of the Vinnytsia Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) has condemned Russia's war against Ukraine and raised the issue of independence from the Russian Orthodox Church.
Russian diplomats spreading lies in an attempt to justify and defend Russia's atrocities in Ukraine are the same kind of aggressors who deserve an international trial and have no right to be called "diplomats."