INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russia will continue pressing forward in eastern Ukraine after Kyiv ordered its forces to retreat
at the start of the invasion in late February
forces were "forced to withdraw" because of a lack of equipment and in a bid to save lives
Zelensky said in his nightly address Sunday about the retreat from Lysychansk.Ukrainian forces pulled back to avoid the risk of
offensive in eastern Ukraine to continue, some military analysts believe the Russian army is nearing exhaustion after more than four months
Cranny-Evans.Russian troops reached the outskirts of Lysychansk at the end of June following the seizure of Lysychansk's sister city,
Sievierodonetsk, in weeks of heavy fighting.Almost 100,000 people lived in Lysychansk before the start of the offensive, but tens of
Lysychansk, the head of Russia's republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, claimed the city had fallen
forces are too short of manpower to advance as far as Slovyansk, the capture of Lysychansk will make it harder for any future Ukrainian
