Article by: Hans Petter MidttunHeavy fighting near Izyum and Kramatorks. Ukrainian army is preparing defenses in Zaporizhia. Russian forces resumed ground attacks against Mariupol’s Azovstal Steel Plant, the threat of chemical attack still remains. Fires rip through Russian oil depots not far from the Ukrainian border. Blasts hit ministry in separatist Transnistria, near Ukraine. Russian FM Lavrov: “Do not underestimate the threat of nuclear war.” US Secretary of Defense Austin in Kyiv: “We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine.”
Morning report day 62 – April 26