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Russia Presses Donbas Attacks
Russia pressed its offensive in eastern Ukraine on Sunday as Poland’s president traveled to Kyiv.
Duda said that to end the conflict, Ukraine did not need to submit to conditions given by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Duda’s visit, his second to Kyiv since April, came as Russian and Ukrainian forces battled along a 551-kilometer (342-mile) wedge of the country’s eastern industrial heartland.
On the battlefield, Russia appeared to have made slow, grinding moves forward in the Donbas in recent days. It intensified efforts to capture Sievierodonetsk, the main city under Ukrainian control in Luhansk province, which together with Donetsk province makes up the Donbas. The Ukrainian military said Sunday that Russian forces had mounted an unsuccessful attack on Oleksandrivka, a village outside of Sievierodonetsk….