INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
little chance of a breakthrough for either side.Military experts and Russian servicemen agreed that hostilities show no signs of slowing,
are areas where Kyiv is faltering
Kharkiv, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions of Ukraine.In Donetsk, Russian forces recently advanced in the Lyman and Pokrovsk directions, the
Ukraine occupied some territory there in August 2024, but Moscow has since recaptured it.The pro-war Telegram channel Rybar, which has close
and Donetsk regions in the east and parts of the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions in the south, in addition to the Crimean peninsula, which
Russia annexed in 2014.Last year, President Vladimir Putin declared that any peace deal would require Ukraine to withdraw its forces from
the four regions Russia claimed to have annexed in 2022.Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov took the same stance, insisting that recognition of
Russian leader declared to mark May 9 Victory Day commemorations, which both sides accused each other of violating.The Conflict Intelligence
Team, an independent group that conducts open-source investigations of the Russian military, said fighting continued along much of the front
Some areas saw reduced activity and less use of aviation, it said, with the most notable change being the absence of long-range missile and
drone strikes on Ukrainian cities.A Russian serviceman currently stationed on the front line also said there was no indication that the
to the sensitivity of the matter
