Putin threatens to seize more of Ukraine to block attacks on border regions
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Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested that he could order his troops to try to seize more land in Ukraine to protect Russian territory on the border. He also asserted Tuesday that Ukrainian forces had suffered “catastrophic” losses in a new counteroffensive. The Russian leader made some of his most detailed remarks in months about the war in an open meeting with military journalists and bloggers, just as Ukrainian officials claim they have captured a handful of villages in the early stages of a counteroffensive. The meeting lasted more than two hours. It came after Russian missile strikes in central Ukraine killed at least 11 people overnight.

Russian missiles hit civilian buildings in a central Ukrainian city overnight, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than two dozen in a warehouse and a residential building, regional officials said Tuesday.

The devastation in Kryvyi Rih, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s hometown, is the latest bloodshed in Russia’s war in Ukraine, as Ukrainian forces are in the early stages of a counteroffensive using Western-supplied firepower.