KYIV — Ukraine said on Tuesday its forces would never surrender to Russia, 1,000 days after Moscow launched its brutal invasion, while the Kremlin also pledged victory and escalated its nuclear saber-rattling.
The grim anniversary opened with an overnight Russian strike in the eastern Ukrainian region of Sumy that gutted a Soviet-era residential building and killed at least nine people, including a child.
NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER A member of the Ukrainian Ground Forces’ 24th Mechanized Brigade fires a 2s5 152mm self-propelled howitzer toward Russian positions at an undisclosed location near the city of Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, on Nov. 18, 2024. AFP PHOTO