In four days, Ukraine nullified four months of Russia’s ‘success’
Three dozen towns and villages have been liberated from the Russian forces who fled eastwards and offered little or no resistance, analysts say. “Within four days, Ukraine nullified four months of success of the Russian army that cost them a huge amount of victims,” Nikolay Mitrokhin, a Russian expert at Germany’s University of Bremen, told Al Jazeera.
The retreat followed the deployment of poorly-trained Russian national guardsmen and civilians who were forcibly mobilised and herded to the front line from separatist Luhansk and neighbouring Donetsk.