movielover said:
NYTimes: Russia Maintains Punishing Pace of Deadly Strikes on Ukrainian Cities
A barrage on Vilniansk, a town in the south, killed seven, including three children, as attacks across Ukraine in the past few days have left dozens dead, according to local authorities.
Russia captures two more villages
Deceptive NYT headline, "Deadly Strikes on Ukrainian Cities
" implies that the Russians are bombing cities, when in fact the fighting is deliberately being confined to small Donbas towns whose population has fled long ago.
There is indeed a lot of casualties though, almost all from the Ukrainian army, who has been losing around 1,500 men
per day the last couple of months.
This has been the pattern all along, Ukraine holding fortified outposts like Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Chasiv Yar for far too long and getting absolutely pummeled with artillery, gliding bombs, instead of ceding ground, in order to keep morale high enough.