The prospect that Russia could soon gain complete control over the Donbas region has strengthened, compared with one-third of it before the February 24 invasion
Soldiers with the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces in the Zaporizhzhia region in southeast Ukraine on Sunday, May 1, 2022. While Moscow failed in in its initial, sweeping objectives, Russian forces have seized a wide swath of southern Ukraine. Image: Lynsey Addario/The New York Times
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