The attacks reduced a nine-storey apartment block in Kyiv’s western suburbs to rubble and wounded dozens of others. Russia claimed to have captured Chasiv Yar, a strategically important hillside town in eastern Ukraine where the two sides have been fiercely fighting for months. Moscow has stepped up its deadly aerial assaults on Ukraine in recent months, resisting US pressure to end its nearly three-and-a-half year invasion. Zelensky believes Russia could be “pushed” to stop the war, but if the world doesn’t aim to change the regime in Russia, Moscow will still try to destabilize neighboring countries. The capture of Chasiv Yar would mark a major military boon for Russia, which has been making incremental but steady territorial gains for months. Ukrainian officials have called for more pressure on Russia to end the war.