Ukraine Russia war live updates: Ukraine can win war against Russia, says NATO chief

Joint Swedish-Finnish NATO bid is 'best thing' for Sweden's security: PM Magdalena Andersson

Sweden's ruling Social Democrats said on Sunday they backed the country joining NATO, abandoning decades of opposition in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and creating a large parliament majority in favour of membership.

“Ukraine can win this war,” says NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, adding that the alliance must continue to give the country military support.

Russia’s war in Ukraine is not going as Moscow had planned: NATO chief

Ukraine has deployed many of its new US M-777 howitzers at the front lines and Washington has delivered all but one of the 90 artillery pieces they were due to send, the US embassy in Kyiv said on Sunday.

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NATO will look at providing security guarantees for Finland and Sweden during the interim period from their application for membership to accession, alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg said Sunday

Blinken confident on Finland, Sweden NATO bids

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg voiced confidence Sunday at resolving Turkey's concerns on expected membership bids by Sweden and Finland.

The Ukrainian military said there was no let-up on Sunday in Russia's bombardment of the steel works in the southern port, where a few hundred Ukrainian fighters are holding out weeks after the city fell into Russian hands.

White brightly-burning munitions were shown cascading down on the Azovstal steel works in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol in a video posted by a pro-Russian separatist commander on Sunday.

Russia said on Sunday it had pummelled Ukrainian positions in the east with missiles, targeting command centres and arsenals as its forces seek to encircle Ukrainian army units in the battle for Donbas.

Ukraine president Volodymr Zelenskyy warns that the military situation in Ukraine's southeastern Donbas region is "very difficult".

Finland's government says it has decided to apply for NATO membership, reports AP

The front lines in the Ukraine war had shifted on Sunday as Russia made some advances in the fiercely contested eastern Donbas region and the Ukrainian military waged a counteroffensive near the strategic Russian-held city of Izium.

Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba said he met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Berlin on Sunday and that "more weapons and other aid is on the way to Ukraine".

Since Russia's invasion on Feb. 24, Ukraine's military has forced Russia's commanders to abandon an advance on the capital Kyiv, before making rapid gains in the northeast and driving them away from the second biggest city of Kharkiv

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