Russia is massing more troops and could soon dispatch fresh battalions for its major ground offensive in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, foreign intelligence officials said Sunday, while Russian rocket attacks on the opposite side of the country reportedly injured more than 20 Ukrainians.
The attack on the western city of Chortkiv on Sunday offered a grim reminder that Russian forces still have the capability to strike virtually anywhere in Ukraine, despite focusing the bulk of their resources on the Donbas campaign. Russian officials claimed that the Chortkiv strike destroyed a Ukrainian weapons depot, though Ukrainian government leaders disputed that account and told Reuters there were no arms at the site.