Armed with new powerful weapons, Ukraine is limiting Russian advances, military analysts say.

Bolstered by a growing arsenal of heavy weapons supplied by Western allies, Ukraine’s military has launched counteroffensives across their country’s northeast and claimed to have driven Russian forces out of several towns and villages.

The Ukrainian military intelligence agency, however, warned on Saturday that Russia was completing efforts to regroup in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region and was probing Ukrainian defenses for weak points before launching a major offensive. It also said that some of the elite Russian fighters who had been engaged in the battle for the southern city of Mariupol are now being dispatched to the Donbas region.

Russian forces control a swath of territory in eastern Ukraine in the shape of a crescent moon — with Izium in the Kharkiv province to the north, the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk to the east, and large parts of the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions to the south. Read more

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