Southern Ukraine shows signs Russia has come to stayRussian forces took control of Berdyansk, a port city on the Sea of Azov, in the first days of Moscow's military campaign in Ukraine. BERDYANSK, Ukraine: A Russian military plane was flying in the skies over Berdyansk, a city in southern Ukraine, but no one took much notice. In the weeks since, it has been cut off from other parts of the country, as Moscow's troops and pro-Russian separatists battle to seize swathes of eastern and southern Ukraine. He said other cities in Ukraine, like the southern regional capital Zaporizhzhia or Kharkiv in the northeast, "should become Russian". Melitopol's mayor Ivan Fedorov was famously detained and held for several days by Russian forces in March, and eventually left the city.

Source: Bangkok Post May 04, 2022 10:48 UTC