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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian troops have pushed back several Russian assaults in the country's east, British intelligence said on Monday, while President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said tens of thousands of Russian soldiers were massing for a new offensive.
Russian forces were also pushing to establish control over the southern port city of Mariupol to establish a link between Russian-held areas to the west and east.
Fighting
- Tens of thousands of people have likely been killed in Russia's assault on Mariupol, Zelenskyy told South Korea's parliament.
- Russian shelling has continued in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, with Ukrainian forces fending off several assaults, Britain's defense ministry said in a regular update.
- Russia said its cruise missiles destroyed S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems which had been supplied to Ukraine by an unidentified European country.
- The Russian-backed breakaway Ukrainian region of Donetsk will intensify its battle against Ukrainian forces, its head was quoted as saying by the RIA news agency.
- The head of Russia's republic of Chechnya said there would be a Russian offensive not only on Mariupol but also on Kyiv and other cities.
Diplomacy
- Russia sees no reason to suspend peace talks with Ukraine, but will not pause its military operation for subsequent rounds of negotiations, its foreign minister said.
- Zelenskyy asked South Korea for any military aid it could provide in his video address to the country's lawmakers.
- Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said he would meet Putin on Monday in Moscow, the Russian leader's first face-to-face meeting with a European Union counterpart since the invasion.
Economy and business
- Brussels is working on an embargo on Russian oil as part of a possible next round of EU sanctions, the Irish foreign minister said.
- French bank Societe Generale said it would quit Russia and take a 3 billion euros ($3.3 billion) hit from selling its Rosbank unit to a firm linked to a Russian oligarch.
- Canada imposed sanctions on companies in the Russian defense sector and said it was studying additional measures.
- The Kremlin said Russia had the resources to pay its debt and any default would be technical and "man-made."
- Ukraine's economic output will likely contract by 45% this year, the World Bank said on Sunday.
- Ukraine has banned all imports from Russia and called on other countries to impose harsher economic sanctions.
