Ukraine Latest: Russian Forces Slam East; Blinken Bashes Court
A wounded soldier at a military hospital in Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine, in March.
Photographer: Emre Caylak/AFP/Getty Images
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken raised concern of a “sham trial” after two captured British fighters and a Moroccan were sentenced to death by a court in the Russian-occupied Donetsk region of Ukraine.
Russian troops are fighting to capture the city of Sievierodonetsk, and launched an offensive on Slovyansk, in an effort to take remaining Ukrainian positions in the east. The Kremlin is tightening control in two occupied regions of Ukraine by installing former Russian officials in top jobs.