RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin said his forces can’t be defeated ‘on the battlefield' as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Moscow’s offensive is intensifying with the approach of February 24, the Russian invasion’s one-year mark.

Top US and Ukrainian officials spoke by phone about the situation on the frontlines and Russia’s possible next steps.

Poland’s prime minister outlined to a German newspaper a potential plan by Russia to surround Ukraine on multiple fronts, including from Belarus in the north, where Kremlin troops have been amassing for weeks.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and a large delegation of commissioners were in Kyiv for meetings ahead of Friday’s EU-Ukraine summit.

The talks included a potential 10th package of sanctions against Russia.

Kremlin forces launched two missiles on Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region on Thursday morning, after overnight shelling, local governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said on Facebook.

On Wednesday, three people were killed and 18 wounded after a Russian missile destroyed part of an apartment building in Kramatorsk.

Russia conducted six missile strikes and four air attacks over the past day and fired 73 salvos from multiple rocket launchers, Ukraine’s General Staff said on Facebook.

Ukrainian troops repelled assaults near 14 settlements in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. Russian forces are actively conducting reconnaissance operations, General Staff said, without naming specific areas.