LVIV, Ukraine — Denouncing Russia’s “diabolic invasion” of its smaller neighbor, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, both officials said Sunday, as fierce new fighting flared in the country’s east.
In a 10th week of warfare, Russia said Sunday it struck 800 targets overnight and early Sunday with missile and artillery fire, marking an intensified battle tempo along a crescent-shaped front line stretching 300 miles from southeast to northeast.
Moscow, which has signaled wider ambitions to seize the entirety of Ukraine’s southern Black Sea coast and render the country landlocked, confirmed it had taken aim a day earlier at the airport outside the major port city of Odesa. Ukrainian officials said earlier those strikes on Saturday left the airport inoperable.
