Russia ramps up offensives on 2 fronts in Ukraine as both sides seek an advantage before the fall
Source: AP
By SAMYA KULLAB and YEHOR KONOVALOV
Updated 4:46 AM CDT, July 2, 2025
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) An emboldened Russia has ramped up military offensives on two fronts in Ukraine, scattering Kyivs precious reserve troops and threatening to expand the fighting to a new Ukrainian region as each side seeks an advantage before the fighting season wanes in the autumn.
Moscow aims to maximize its territorial gains before seriously considering a full ceasefire, analysts and military commanders said. Ukraine wants to slow the Russian advance for as long as possible and extract heavy losses.
Kremlin forces are steadily gaining ground in the strategic eastern logistics hub of Pokrovsk, the capture of which would hand them a major battlefield victory and bring them closer to acquiring the entire Donetsk region. The fighting there has also brought combat to the border of the neighboring Dnipropetrovsk region for the first time.
In an effort to prevent Moscow from bolstering those positions in the east, Ukrainian forces are trying to pin down some of Russias best and most battle-hardened troops hundreds of kilometers away, in the northeast Sumy region.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-offensives-ceasefire-c03921de21027d13117cb668c9a1a959

angryxyouth
(277 posts)maxsolomon
(36,927 posts)I'm sure they're rational and not conspiratorial at all.
angryxyouth
(277 posts)Im not saying AP is lying just not laying out an accurate picture of whats going on. Lying by omission? I generally like the AP. Conspiracy theories are only conspiracy theories until theyre proven true. I can think of a bunch of possible reasons. ill keep my speculations to myself..
You're being evasive.
If there's a story out there showing that Russia's war of attrition is suffering setbacks, please share. They don't care if they lose equipment and troops; they have more than Ukraine does.
angryxyouth
(277 posts)I like RFU news a lot. They give detailed information about troop movements and operations.
https://www.rfunews.com/articles/non-stop-airstrikes-russian-forces-build-ups-demolished
Here are some of the latest articles I found.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/02/ukraine-war-briefing-ukraine-launches-one-of-its-deepest-drone-strikes-into-russia-killing-three
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/zelenskiy-says-ukraine-halts-russian-troops-advance-sumy-region-2025-06-14/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/35597956/russians-advance-slow-sumy-summer-offensive/
Trump LOVES him some Putin.......a dictator-wannabe admiring a dictator
progree
(12,105 posts)and in marked contrast to all the videos being posted recently and for 2 years that make it sound like Russia is losing. You'd think by now, based on those videos, that with so many huge Ukraine victories after victories, they'd be about at the stage where they are mopping up the last bit of Russian resistance at the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
I really do hate to say this, as I've been displaying the Ukrainian flag as my avatar since the beginning of the 2022 invasion (whenever they became available on DU).