Vladimir Putin has been dealt a fresh battlefield blow as Ukraine says it trapped around 2,500 Russian troops on a strategic Black Sea peninsula.
Ukrainian troops said Moscow’s forces on the occupied Kinburn Peninsula had become largely isolated as drone attacks and remotely laid mines made it increasingly difficult to bring in ammunition, fuel and food, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Crimea.Realities project.
The setback comes more than four years into the Russian president’s grinding war in Ukraine, with Moscow still struggling to translate its offensives into major battlefield breakthroughs. Russian troops slightly accelerated their advance in August, but made only “slow and limited” gains, according to the Institute for the Study of War, a U.S.-based think tank.
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