Russia gains in east before Trump-Putin summit, Ukraine says holding off | Russia-Ukraine war News

Zelenskyy decries Russia’s attempt to gain battlefield edge pre-US summit maintains its army is holding back ‘occupier’.

Russia has made gains in Ukraine’s Donetsk region before  President Vladimir Putin’s high-stakes meeting with his United States counterpart Donald Trump in Alaska, raising fears that it may have increased its leverage amid talks aimed at ending the war.

In advance of Friday’s summit in Anchorage, Moscow’s army pounded away at Ukraine’s industrial heartland,…