Russian troops are pressing their offensive in the eastern Donbas region in an attempt to fully seize Ukraine's industrial heartland but have made little headway as fierce Ukrainian counterattacks have slowed their efforts, Ukrainian and British officials said Saturday.
Russia continues to fight for full control of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions that make up the Donbas and seeks to secure "a land route between these territories and the occupied Crimea" including by wiping out the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the besieged port city of Mariupol, Ukraine's General Staff said in its morning update.
.png?w=600)
