Russian forces have made a tactical breakthrough in the front lines in a push that is likely designed to boost Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hand ahead of his meeting with President Donald Trump later this week.
The Russians’ moves toward the Ukrainian city of Dobropilla are “small-scale penetrations” for now, but they “certainly will seek to try to mature these tactical successes into a larger breakthrough and a larger penetration and seize more territory,” George Barros, an expert with the Institute for the Study of War, told the Washington Examiner.
While the Russian advances are small for now, Barros said the next couple of days and weeks will be consequential.
Trump and Putin are set to meet in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday in what will be
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