'We will continue to support Ukrainians in their fight to defend their homeland,' President Joe Biden said on Twitter Sunday.
"You can't come to us empty-handed today, and we are expecting not just presents or some kind of cakes, we are expecting specific things and specific weapons,″ he said.
Still, the war cast a shadow over celebrations. Residents of rural villages battered by the war approached the day with some cautious defiance. Most of the fighting Sunday focused on the eastern Donbas region, where Ukrainian forces are concentrated and where Moscow-backed separatists controlled some territory before the war. Since failing to capture Kyiv, the Russians are aiming to gain full control over Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland.where an estimated 1,000 civilians are sheltering along with about 2,000 Ukrainian fighters.
More than 100,000 people — down from a prewar population of about 430,000 — are believed to remain in Mariupol with scant food, water or heat. Ukrainian authorities estimate that over 20,000 civilians have been killed. "The war started when this baby was one month old,″ he said. Can you imagine what is happening?"They are filthy scum, there are no other words for it.""
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