Fighting continues unabated as Ukraine war enters its second month
LVIV, Ukraine — The war in Ukraine entered its second month Thursday with Ukrainian military forces fending off Russian ground advances in major cities even as deadly bombings continued to worsen the country’s humanitarian crisis.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy used a video address in English to call on global supporters to rally in city squares around the world to show that “Ukraine matters.”
“Russia is trying to defeat the freedom of all people in Europe — of all the people in the world,” said Zelenskyy, who stood in central Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital.
“Come to your squares, your streets. Make yourselves visible and heard. Say that people matter, freedom matters, peace matters, Ukraine matters.”
It was a general appeal after a string of daily speeches by Zelenskyy to foreign lawmakers requesting more support from their countries. He
