Kyiv vows no surrender, Kremlin issues nuke threat

By Agence France-Presse

Nov 20, 2024 12:08 am

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

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