“A person who simply reads the news does not see it, does not feel it,” Hanna Maliar, a deputy Ukrainian defense minister, said this week.
It can seem that everything is taking a long time, “but believe me, it doesn’t seem that way to people who are fighting,” she said.
To better understand how the fight is playing out along the breadth of the front, it is useful to look at some of the major theaters where Russia and Ukraine have concentrated their troops.
Moving geographically from the northeast to the south, this is a snapshot of the fighting as summer draws to a close.
Forest Fighting in the NortheastAfter Ukraine drove Russian forces from nearly all of the Kharkiv region last fall, its offensive was finally halted in the pine forests that dominate the landscape in the region.
Persons:
” Hanna Maliar, ”, “, ’
Organizations:
Russian
Locations:
Ukrainian, Russia, Ukraine, Kharkiv