Ukrainian Soldiers Say Shelling Has Increased in Eastern Ukraine

Описание: Ukrainian government soldiers on the outskirts of the eastern city of Horlivka say shelling from Russia-backed separatists has increased.

On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed decrees recognizing the independence bids of separatists in the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk and ordered his troops to the territories. Western countries strongly condemned the move, calling it a violation of Ukraine's territorial integrity. Despite the shelling, Ukrainian forces near Horlivka said they wouldn't be provoked.

U.S. President Joe Biden cut the Russian government off from international financing on Tuesday and imposed sanctions on two large banks, declaring that Moscow's movement of troops into eastern Ukraine was "a flagrant violation of international law."

In a brief White House speech to the American public, Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin's order late Monday to send troops across the eastern Ukraine border and into the Luhansk and Donetsk regions was "the beginning of a Russian invasion of Ukraine." Hours earlier, Putin had declared the regions as independent, no longer part of Ukraine.

(RFE/RL/VOA)

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