Ukraine Advance Near Key Donbas Town Tests Putin’s Land Grab
- Lyman ‘pocket’ in danger of encirclement by Ukrainian troops
- Stop being afraid of Russians, says Ukraine’s defense minister
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Russian President Vladimir Putin may not have long to wait for the first major test of his decision to annex a swathe of Ukraine, with Kyiv’s forces threatening to encircle a pocket of the Donbas region he set out to conquer.
The Kremlin said Putin will on Friday sign what it called treaties with the Moscow-anointed leaders of four partially occupied provinces in Ukraine’s east. Ratification of their absorption into Russia would soon follow.