UPDATED. Russian President Vladimir Putin has given conflicting statements on the goals of the war since his February 24 invasion, but is now clear the aims include some expansion of Russia's borders.
NEAR BAKHMUT, Ukraine – Russian forces attacked settlements in eastern Ukraine from the ground and air, officials said on Thursday, December 8, in support of the Kremlin’s apparently scaled-back ambition of only securing the bulk of Ukrainian lands it has claimed in the war.
“They are bringing in more and more reserves,” around Bilohorivka to try to capture the village, Luhansk governor Serhiy Haiday told Ukrainian television. “There are constant attacks.” Warning that the war could be lengthy, Putin said Russia had made the Sea of Azov its “internal sea,” now bounded by Russia and Russian-controlled territory in southern Ukraine including Crimea.
In the settlement of Bakhmut and other parts of the Donetsk region that neighbors Luhansk, the assault killed nine civilians, the regional governor said. Ukrainian forces countered with barrages from rocket launchers, Reuters witnessed.On Thursday, Russian naval forces shot down a Ukrainian drone over the Black Sea, said the Russian-installed governor of Sevastopol, an important port and the largest city in Crimea.
Russian-installed authorities summoned men of fighting age to mobilize, Ukraine’s military general staff said in a statement.
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