“We cannot stand by while Russian long-range artillery flattens cities and kills innocent civilians,” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Monday. In Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov condemned the help being offered to Ukraine by other nations.
“The more long-range the systems that the West supplies to Ukraine, the further we will push the Nazis away from the territories where the threat to Russia comes from,” Lavrov said during a news conference Monday.
Russia has focused its might on the city of Severodonetsk in the eastern Donbas region, where it continued to press Ukrainian forces early Monday. Serhiy Haidai, governor of the Luhansk region, said in a TV interview Monday that the situation in the city has “worsened for us” and that Russian shelling has intensified. He said Ukrainian troops remain in control of Severodonetsk’s industrial zone as the tug of war over territory drags on.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited troops on the front lines in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, including in Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk, where officials accused Russia of shelling a humanitarian aid facility.