Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Adrian Karatnycky: Putin’s Ukraine assault – in a shambles but far from over
Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko visits the headquarters of anti-terrorist operation near Izyum, Kharkiv Oblast, and finalizes the plan of the military offensive actions of the Ukraine's army on July 8.
Nearly three months after Russian mercenaries and Russia-backed proxies began grabbing parts of eastern Ukraine in April, Ukraine's armed forces have made important breakthroughs against the occupiers. Significantly, the forced retreat of these Russian proxies on Sunday [July 6] from Slovyansk and some other insurgent-occupied cities was chaotic. Some insurgents simply dropped their weapons and have been trying to escape to Russia or the Crimea region of Ukraine, which remains firmly in Russian hands. Others have merely fallen back and redeployed in rebel-held Donetsk and Luhansk, provincial capitals in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region.
