Free Republic

Russia is carrying out “massive strikes” across the Ukrainian front line, Moscow claimed, after suffering bruising losses in recent days."Air, rocket and artillery forces are carrying out massive strikes on units of the Ukrainian armed forces in all operational directions," said the Russian defence ministry. "High-precision" strikes have also been launched on Ukrainian positions around Sloviansk and Konstantinovka in the eastern Donetsk region, it added. Moscow was forced to pull back its troops from swathes of the northeast, particularly in the Kharkiv region, following Kyiv's lightning assault to wrest back terrain. The territorial shifts marked one of Russia's biggest setbacks...