Russian troops achieved one of the biggest breakthroughs of the war in eastern Ukraine, with some units making it through Kyiv’s primary defensive line just days ahead of President Donald Trump’s peace summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
Since September 2022, the war in Ukraine has largely been marked by slow, attritional warfare between entrenched combatants, with advances marked by meters rather than miles. Moscow has mastered this attritional form of fighting, using a combination of small assault squads, first-person view drones, artillery, and glide bombs to wear down Ukrainian fortifications slowly. Over the weekend, this strategy finally bore fruit when Russian forces achieved one of the largest breakthroughs of the war, advancing nearly 10 miles, past Ukraine’s main line of defenses in Donetsk
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