Russia announced today that the first phase of its military operation, as it calls it, in Ukraine has been largely completed and that it will now focus on fully liberating the Donbass region[/B] in eastern Ukraine.
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The announcement seems to suggest that Russia may be switching to more limited targets, after facing stiff resistance from Ukraine in the first month of the war, Reuters news agency believes.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that Russian-backed separatists now control 93%[/B] of the Luhansk region[/B] and 54% of the Donetsk region, the two regions that make up Donbass.
"The main objectives of the first stage of the operation have been broadly achieved," said Sergei Runchkoy, head of the operational directorate of the Russian General Staff.
"The combat potential of Ukraine's armed forces has been significantly reduced, which... makes it possible to focus our main efforts on achieving our main goal, the liberation of Donbass."
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