INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Ukraine said Thursday its forces have withdrawn from a district in the town of Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine, where Russian forces have
recently claimed several advances.Losing the small hilltop town is a worrying prospect for Ukraine because it would likely accelerate
Russia's advance toward large civilian hubs in the Donetsk region."It became impractical to hold the Kanal district, which the enemy had
entered, because it threatened the lives and well-being of our soldiers," a Ukrainian military spokesman, Nazar Voloshyn, said on state-run
television."Our defenders' positions had been destroyed
The command decided to retreat to better protected and prepared positions," Voloshyn added.Russia had said earlier this week that its forces
had advanced around Chasiv Yar
