President Vladimir Putin's order raises the threat that the tensions with the West over the invasion in Ukraine could lead to the use of nuclear weapons.
, a city of 1.4 million about 20 kilometers south of the border with Russia, while other forces rolled past to press the offensive deeper into Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin hasn’t disclosed his ultimate plans, but Western officials believe he is determined to overthrow Ukraine’s government and replace it with a regime of his own, redrawing the map of Europe and reviving Moscow’s Cold War-era influence. Ukrainian military deputy commander Lt.-Gen. Yevhen Moisiuk sounded a defiant note in a message aimed at Russian troops.
Ukraine's U.N. ambassador, Sergiy Kyslytsya, tweeted Saturday that Ukraine appealed to the International Committee of the Red Cross "to facilitate repatriation of thousands of bodies of Russian soldiers." An accompanying chart claimed 3,500 Russian troops have been killed.
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