INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian forces are believed to have paused their grueling offensive in eastern Ukraine to rest soldiers and re-position for their next
assaults while simultaneously stepping up rocket attacks on Ukrainian cities, military analysts told The Moscow Times.In the latest strike
on a Ukrainian city, at least 23 civilians, including three children, were killed Thursday by Russian missiles in the central city of
correlates with the temporary slowdown of operations in the east of Ukraine, according to William Alberque, director of the arms control
the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia.State Emergency Service of UkraineBut this grinding war of attrition has also taken a heavy toll on
said Dara Massicot, a senior policy researcher focusing on the Russian army at U.S
of the Ukrainian city of Lysychansk, Russian President Vladiimr Putin ordered that the soldiers involved in the battle be given time to
on what appeared to be a cultural center in Vinnytsia showed the charred remains of upturned cars, debris scattered across the road, severed
schools and a stadium, according to Vitaliy Kim, the head of the regional military administration
residential building in the Donetsk region town of Chasiv Yar rose steadily all week as bodies were pulled from the rubble
this month, Moscow now controls half of the Donbas, a key Kremlin war aim after it failed to take Kyiv.The current halt in the offensive in
the east is likely designed to give Moscow time to maneuver troops into place for assaults on the key cities of Sloviansk and
war, military analyst Michael Kofman told the War of the Rocks podcast Monday.The town of Chasiv Yar city in Donetsk region of Ukraine after
a Russian rocket attack.State Emergency Service of UkraineRussian forces will attempt a two-prong attack, with troops advancing south from
occupied areas of eastern and southern Ukraine in recent weeks using the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), which the
of Mykolaiv caused by Russian shelling.State Emergency Service of UkraineIn an ominous address to Kremlin officials last week, Putin said
