After taking the last major city in Luhansk, Russia keeps up its strikes on three fronts.
Last week, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia warned that the campaign in Ukraine had barely begun. Attacks this weekend suggest that — after suffering major setbacks early in its war — Moscow’s appetite for the conflict remains undiminished.
In parts of the northeast it has seized, Russia has moved to reinforce its political control. In the east, it conducted a series of attacks, while further south it was forced to defend its positions.
In the wake of its failure to seize Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, at the start of the war, Russia has used its superior firepower to gain ground in the eastern Donbas region. The final city in Luhansk Province fell to Russian forces last week, and Moscow has now escalated its strikes on Donetsk Province. At least five urban centers in Donetsk have come under fire since Saturday.
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