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After the failures around Kharkiv last year, Putin and his military commanders were determined "to not be embarrassed the same way," one expert said.
Intense fighting in two sectors of Ukraine's southern front line is wearing down Russian defending forces, according to the U.K. defense ministry's daily intelligence report on August 1.
Ukrainian investigators have identified three Russian commanders who are believed to be responsible for the missile attack on the Amstor shopping centre in Kremenchuk that caused numerous casualties and shocked the public a year ago.
Russian drones targeted the capital Kyiv and other cities in the early hours of Tuesday, hitting critical infrastructure in Lviv in the west, Ukrainian officials have said.
The UK has slapped sanctions on senior Russian commanders and Iranian businessmen involved in the production or supply of drones used in the Ukraine War