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Zelensky due to hold videoconference to mark opening.
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ussian forces pursued their bombardment of frontline Ukrainian cities on Sunday, seeking to gain military momentum as Kyiv's diplomatic counter-offensive targeted the world's business and political elite gathering in Davos.
Shelling and missile strikes hit Kharkiv in the north, and Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia in the south, while eight civilians were killed on the eastern front in the Donbas, Ukrainian officials said.
Three months after launching their invasion, Moscow's forces are focused on securing and expanding their gains in the Donbas region and on Ukraine's southern coast.
Kyiv, meanwhile, is rallying international support and receiving Western weapons supplies, even if European Union powers are struggling to agree on expanding sanctions to Russia's huge energy exports.
Poland's President Andrzej Duda was to address the Ukrainian parliament and meet President Volodymyr Zelensky later on Sunday, a day ahead of the Ukrainian leader's Davos videoconference.
"He will in particular pay homage to those who, in defending Ukraine, are fighting to defend Europe," Duda's adviser Jakub Kumoch told the news agency PAP.
The World Economic Forum brings together the world's business and political elite in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos, and this year's gathering will put Ukraine's crisis at center stage.
