Breakthrough at Semyonovka Gives Russia Chance to Encircle Crumbling Ukrainian Lines

The Russian military has driven Ukraine’s NATO armed and trained forces back over 400 square kilometers so far this year, with the advance made possible through a series of powerful blows in the winter and early spring forcing Ukrainian troops to abandon their heavily fortified positions in the western and northern suburbs of the city of Donetsk.

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