"This is the war of exhaustion,” said one Ukrainian soldier at the front. “And we are exhausted. ... [But] I trust the stubbornness of my fellow citizens.”
Denmark has been a stalwart ally to America. Forty-four Danish troops were killed in Afghanistan, the highest per capita death toll among coalition forces.
The attack comes amid a new chill in relations between Moscow and Washington after Russia condemned the US seizure of an oil tanker in the North Atlantic.