KYIV, Ukraine Russia assaulted cities and towns along a boomerang-shaped front hundreds of miles long and poured more troops into Ukraine on Tuesday in a battle for control of the country's eastern industrial heartland of coal mines and factories.
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The main Russian effort is now in Donbas, where Russia will continue to send reinforcements and resupply in the hope of building on (and consolidating) small gains on the ground.