
Eastern encroaches: Ukraine’s losses in Donbas
The Intelligence from The Economist
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Sverdonetsk and the Russian Games
Sverdonetsk and the russian games around there are important for a couple of reasons. If they take the town, they can claim to have controlled all of lohansk province. It also opens up another path to parts of donetsk province which is the other half of dombas. And it gives them another avenue of approach to these industrial cities of slovensk and krametosk. So that's why these tactical movements we're looking at around these towns that you've never heard of, are potentially so important to the wider fight.
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