Headline Roundup • June 3rd, 2022
Examining Ukraine's Resilience as Russia's Invasion Hits Day 100
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has reached its 100th day.
Fighting continues across Ukraine, but the country has not fallen as some early media coverage suggested it might. Still, Russia continues to make slow progress in eastern Ukraine, specifically the Donbas region, to which it recently shifted focus. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy released a video Friday, saying, "We have defended Ukraine for 100 days already. Victory will be ours. Glory to Ukraine." One day earlier, he detailed how "about 20% of our territory" is under Russian control and said that the "Russian army has already destroyed almost the entire Donbas."
Both sides have seen recent setbacks. Ukrainian forces began a retreat this week from Severodonetsk, the final Ukrainian holdout in Luhansk, one of two states that make up the Donbas region. And according to Russian state media, Russian President Vladimir Putin recently fired five generals and one police colonel.
Across the political spectrum, media outlets highlighted the invasion's 100th day, Zelenskyy's message, and the overall resilience of Ukraine and its people. Predictions for the conflict's future were a bit different from left to right. Some coverage from CNN (Left bias) and Associated Press (Center bias) focused more on Russia's strategic gains, and framed Putin as unlikely to concede despite his invasion purportedly not going as planned. Conversely, coverage from Fox News (Right bias) and other right-rated sources highlighted a graphic from the U.K. Ministry of Defense that labeled Russia's offensive in northern Ukraine "a costly failure."
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KYIV, Ukraine – When I first arrived in Ukraine on January 23, the skies were gray and the weather cold. In the depths of winter, it snows in Kyiv almost every day and the sidewalks are treacherously icy. At the small coffee kiosk, little more than a hole in the wall, a young barista whipped up hot lattes and said she wasn’t worried about the prospect of war. She was far from alone.
Despite tens of thousands of Russian troops and artillery gathering at the border for what Moscow called military exercises,...
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Kyiv didn't feel like a city bracing itself for 150,000 Russian soldiers to cross the border into Ukraine.
Arriving in Kyiv in January I decided to brave the supermarket near my flat. You could get your hands on just about any kind of meat or vegetable it seemed, even a pint of beer on aisle six.
"It's all a bluff", "we're at war already", were the most common responses when I asked people whether they were worried about what seemed to be the unthinkable at the time.
Of course, within...
Ninety-nine days ago, Volodymyr Zelensky left the presidential palace in Kyiv to shoot a selfie video outside in the street.
The previous day, President Vladimir Putin had sent his troops into Ukraine and the Ukrainian leader was coming under Western pressure to save himself and evacuate the capital before the massive column of Russian armor reached the city.
But no, Zelensky said, Ukraine will fight and he would stay. “I need ammo, not a ride,” he declared.
It was a line that passed immediately into history and helped steel a nation to defend itself against a...
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