Russia-Ukraine War
Russia-Ukraine War
Russia-Ukraine War
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Russia’s escalating attacks exacerbate long-standing considerations about how Ukraine manages its military and contradicts assumptions that Moscow’s offensive is slowing, according to military analysts.
By Marc Santora
Marc Santora has visited many times over the past year to communicate with Ukrainian soldiers. This article was reported from kyiv, Ukraine.
Three Russian infantrymen run down a cratered road on electric scooters, while others cross muddy fields on all-terrain vehicles.
Other Russians advance on foot, rushing for shelter in the ruins of destroyed houses, according to army video of the war on the outskirts of Toretsk in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian. As the fighting intensified, more Russian troops arrived in armored personnel carriers.
The 12th Azov Special Operations Brigade, a Ukrainian unit, dropped cluster munitions, pursued the Russians with drones and engaged in hand-to-hand combat, as the video shows. The images were verified by military analysts and some posted on YouTube.
In the end, the attack failed, said Lt. Col. Dmytro Pavlenko-Kryzheshevskyi, the brigade’s intelligence chief, 36, who saw the video.
The battle, he said, is typical of attacks taking place along many kilometers of the front, where Ukrainian forces are fighting dozens of pitched battles over parcels of land no larger than a few blocks.
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