Russian Forces on the Run in Ukraine

“Russian forces in Ukraine were on the run Monday across a broad swath of the frontline, as the Ukrainian military pressed its blitz offensive in the east and made gains in the south, belying President Vladimir V. Putin’s claims to absorb into Russia territories that his armies are steadily losing,” the New York Times reports.

“Following their capture over the weekend of Lyman, a strategic rail hub and gateway to the eastern Donbas region, Ukrainian forces showed no sign of stopping, pushing eastward toward the city of Lysychansk, which Russia seized over the summer following weeks of bloody fighting.”