Fighting in Ukraine's east continues as Belarus militarization continues
Fierce fighting continued Wednesday in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine while continued militarization in Belarus stoked fears the Russian ally could still open up a second front in the nearly 10-month war.in Washington, DC — his first trip outside of his war-torn nation since Russian troops invaded in February.
Fighting in the region subsided after two unsuccessful ceasefire attempts brokered in Minsk, the Belarusian capital, in 2014 and 2015. Though the bombardment continues, an artillery captain told the paper that the Russians were firing less often than he’d experienced during a deployment to the southern front near Kherson earlier this month.Still, the fighting has ground into a bloody stalemate. Russian forces gained territory near Bakhmut in the fall, but any advance in recent weeks has been incremental and difficult to keep.
“We have a few kilometers left to Kreminna,” he said on the messaging app Telegram. “Progress is slow due to the densely mined territory.”But as the fighting continues on the eastern front, Ukrainian and western analysts fear the reopening of the northern front as Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be pressuring Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko to join the fight.
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