LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Russian troops were seeding northern areas of Ukraine with land mines as Moscow increasingly focused its offensive thrust on the eastern Donbas region — home of two self-proclaimed republics loyal to Russia.
The Ukrainian military said Russian forces were attempting to encircle Ukrainian troops in parts of the Donbas and pulling away partially from the capital, Kyiv. But Zelenskyy warned that the dangers remained real and potent.
“It’s still not possible to return to normal life, as it used to be, even at the territories that we are taking back after the fighting,” he said. “They are mining all this territory. Mining houses, equipment, even the bodies of killed people. Too many trip-wire mines, too many other dangers ... .”
