Ukraine Retreats From Part of Strategic Town as Russia Advances
Ukrainian servicemen ride a buggy near Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, on April 27.
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Ukrainian forces withdrew from a section of an embattled town in the eastern Donetsk region, a retreat from part of a strategic position that signaled a setback in the struggle to hold off Russia’s advance.
Military commanders ordered troops to pull out of a district in the town of Chasiv Yar after positions were destroyed, making them too dangerous to defend, Nazar Voloshyn, a Ukrainian military spokesman, said in televised comments Thursday.