Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy ridicules Russian military drive, saying Putin keeps postponing goal deadlines

Ukrainian president says Kremlin leader has repeatedly set and deferred timelines to fully capture eastern Donbas area. What we know on day 1,588 Volodymyr Zelenskyy has mocked Russia’s military drive , saying the Kremlin has set and put off 15 deadlines to ⁠capture Ukraine’s eastern Donbas ⁠region across four years. The Ukrainian president was responding to Vladimir Putin’s rejection a day earlier of what the Russian leader said was a Ukrainian proposal to abandon long-range strikes and ⁠scale down the fighting. He said Putin’s comments showed he was out of touch with the feelings of Russians

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