Frontline Donetsk battles surge as Kyiv backs plan to tap frozen Russian assets
Russian forces have intensified attacks in Donetsk near Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, with Moscow claiming advances the ISW says are overstated; Ukraine backs an EU plan to use more than €200 billion of frozen Russian central bank assets to fund Ukraine's defense, a move previously blocked by EU liability concerns but now being revisited by Spain, Sweden, Poland and the Netherlands.