US EditionRussia makes sudden advance in Ukraine before Trump-Putin summit, maps show
- Russian troops penetrated parts of Ukraine's defenses near Dobropillia and Pokrovsk in Donetsk in early August 2025, days before the August 15 summit in Alaska.
- This follows a slow, costly Russian offensive that began in spring 2025 marked by small-group tactical infiltration without heavy equipment.
- Ukraine has fortified defenses along the T0514 supply route, deploying units including the First Azov Corps to contain Russian advances aiming to split Ukrainian forces in Donetsk.
- A Washington-based think tank assessing the conflict indicated it is too early to classify the recent Russian gains near Dobropillia as an operational breakthrough, while President Zelensky highlighted that although Russian forces outnumber Ukrainians three to one, their casualties are also approximately triple those of Ukraine.
- The developments increase pressure ahead of the summit where Putin may seek U.S. acceptance of Moscow's control over parts of Ukraine despite European leaders affirming that borders cannot be changed by force.
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In the countdown to this Friday's meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, Russian forces are striving to have the battlefield on their side and have made significant territorial advances in key positions in eastern Ukraine, which could give the Kremlin chief an additional incentive to give up a truce in favor of continuing the war.In recent days, Russian units have consolidated their advances near the cities of Pokr…
Russia makes sudden advance in Ukraine ahead of Trump-Putin talks
Russian troops made a sudden breach in eastern Ukraine, in what analysts say is an attempt to pressure Kyiv into giving up land, days before crucial talks between Washington and Moscow. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that Kyiv wouldn’t give up the eastern Donbas region, amid concerns about how much US President Donald Trump might concede to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s maximalist demands when the two meet in Alaska on…
Russia makes battlefield advances as Putin-Trump meeting looms
Russian forces have made a tactical breakthrough in the front lines in a push that is likely designed to boost Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hand ahead of his meeting with President Donald Trump later this week. The Russians’ moves toward the Ukrainian city of Dobropilla are “small-scale penetrations” for now, but they “certainly will seek to try to mature these tactical successes into a larger breakthrough and a larger penetration and seiz…
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