Ukraine sends reserves to stop Russian advance in east amid diplomatic push
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The Kremlin is pushing to seize more territory in Donetsk region before Trump-Putin talks on Friday in Alaska.
Ukraine’s military has sent reserves to stem Russian advances near two key cities in the eastern Donetsk region, as Moscow attempts to gain more territory before a meeting between its leader, Vladimir Putin and United States President Donald Trump in Alaska on Friday, where land swap issues to end the war will be focal.
The Ukrainian General Staff said on Tuesday that its forces were involved in “difficult” fighting close to Pokrovsk and Dobropillia, with the extra soldiers needed to block attacks by small groups of Russian troops.
The development suggests intensifying struggles in the eastern Donetsk area, where Moscow-backed separatists have mainly held sway since the conflict there erupted there 2014, instigated by the Kremlin and deepened by Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Some of the advancing clusters of Russian soldiers had been destroyed, while others were still being engaged in combat, it added.
Russia’s advance is one of the most dramatic in the past year, with its soldiers infiltrating 17km (10 miles) past Ukrainian lines over the last three days, according to Pasi Paroinen, a military analyst with the Finland-based Black Bird Group.
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