KHARKIV, Ukraine – Ukrainian authorities have accused Russia of burying thousands of civilians in mass graves outside Mariupol, a city now largely under Russian control after two months of fighting as Moscow pushed its offensive to take over the rest of the eastern Donbass region.
A senior Russian military official, meanwhile, said Russia’s territorial goals extend far beyond the Donbass, which Moscow stopped seeing as part of Ukraine when President Vladimir Putin recognized the independence of the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics in February. of Moscow in 2014
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