Kyiv time on June 14, a total of 178 combat clashes had taken place along the front lines throughout the day, with the fiercest fighting reported in the Pokrovsk direction, reports Ukraine’s General Staff.

Military leaders and analysts alike are questioning whether any level of battlefield attrition can alter Russia’s efforts to occupy still more of Ukraine. Former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valerii Zaluzhnyi admitted in November,

Russia launched one of its largest air strikes on Kyiv in over three years of war and struck a maternity ward in the southern city of Odesa, officials said.