Russia’s Advances in Eastern Ukraine Are Stalling Ahead of Talks
Ukrainian soldiers fire artillery in the direction of Pokrovsk, Ukraine.
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The Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine is stalling just as officials in Moscow prepare to engage with a US push to end their three-year war, according to a Bloomberg analysis of open-source battlefield data.
Russian forces fighting the Ukrainians lost territory overall for the first time in more than a year during the week ending March 10, the analysis shows. Ukrainian troops have been pushing back the Russians around the strategic city of Pokrovsk, a key logistics hub for supplying Kyiv’s forces in the Donetsk region.