We will be closing this blog soon, but you can stay up-to-date on the Guardian’s Russia and Ukraine coverage here. Russia claimed the capture Avdiivka after Ukraine withdrew, but Moscow said that some Ukrainian troops were still holed up in a vast Soviet-era coke plant. It’s nothing surprising and we are not afraid,” she told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference. Khortytsia’s troops were not involved in the withdrawal from the town of Avdiivka in the region, which Russia claimed Saturday to fully control. Russia and Ukraine have several times accused each other of violating international humanitarian law by killing prisoners-of-war since Russia invaded.

Source: The Guardian February 18, 2024 17:29 UTC