Russia is pressing the attack in Ukrainian oblasts and intensifying its provocative actions in the borderlands, thus trying to “offset” a series of military failures, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky said in his traditional address to the nation on Tuesday evening. In turn, Defense Minister Oleksy Reznikov said the war against Moscow is entering “an extended stage”, whereby the Russian Federation is trying to gain full control over Donbas and occupy the south of Ukraine. The Ukrainian Minister called on Ukraine’s Western allies to coordinate their deliveries of weapons to Kyiv. Today, the Prosecutor’s Office is bringing to court the first Russian soldier accused of having shot an unarmed civilian. This is the first war crimes trial in Ukraine, although many others are expected to follow, and will mark a test for the Ukrainian judiciary, at a time when international institutions are starting their own investigations into the war crimes committed by Russian troops in this country, AFP reports.
