A senior U.S. defense official said Tuesday that the Russian military’s advance on Kyiv has “stalled” because of logistical issues, while Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of war crimes after an apparent strike on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city.
“We generally sense that the Russia military movement to Kyiv is stalled at this point,” the official said in a briefing to reporters on Tuesday. The official noted that a 40-mile long convoy of Russian military vehicles, seen in satellite imagery, has not made meaningful progress toward the capital city in recent hours.
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