Ukraine's push into Russian territory comes amid Moscow's advances toward Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region.
Vladimir Putin's sluggish response to the first foreign occupation of Russian territory since World War II suggests he is more focused on the opportunities Volodymyr Zelensky's incursion into Kursk may present elsewhere on the front line.
'For the incursion to be effective, Ukrainian personnel and military hardware had to be diverted from southeast, which in turn allowed Russian forces to score territorial gains across Donbas,' he told Newsweek, referring to the eastern Ukrainian region mostly controlled by Moscow that includes Donetsk Oblast.
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