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  • Ukrainian troops lose ground with fewer fighters and exposed supply lines

    02/03/2025 3:17:51 AM PST · by McGruff · 29 replies
    ABC News ^ | Feb 3, 2025 | SAMYA KULLAB and VASILISA STEPANENKO
    POKROVSK REGION, Ukraine -- A dire shortage of infantry troops and supply routes coming under Russian drone attacks are conspiring against Ukrainian forces in Pokrovsk, where decisive battles in the nearly three-year war are playing out — and time is running short. Ukrainian troops are losing ground around the crucial supply hub, which lies at the confluence of multiple highways leading to key cities in the eastern Donetsk region as well as an important railway station. Moscow is set on capturing as much territory as possible as the Trump administration is pushing for negotiations to end the war and recently...
  • AP evidence points to 600 dead in Mariupol theater airstrike

    05/04/2022 7:56:17 AM PDT · by Berlin_Freeper · 46 replies
    apnews.com ^ | May 4, 2022 | LORI HINNANT, MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and VASILISA STEPANENKO
    She stood in just her bathrobe in the freezing basement of the Mariupol theater, coated in white plaster dust shaken loose by the explosion. Her husband tugged at her to leave and begged her to cover her eyes. But she couldn’t help it — Oksana Syomina looked. And to this day, she wishes she hadn’t. Bodies were strewn everywhere, including those of children. By the main exit, a little girl lay still on the floor. Syomina had to step on the dead to escape the building that had served as the Ukrainian city’s main bomb shelter for more than a...