Angla–Esperanta vortaro

🔗 Russian forces were forced to flee the strategic eastern city just five days after Ukrainian forces began a new offensive eastward through the Charkiv region.

🔗 Russia has long argued that the eastward expansion of NATO put its security under threat, falsely claiming that NATO leaders promised Russia that the defensive alliance would not enlarge after the end of the Cold War.

🔗 Ukrainian reports say Putin’s troops are fleeing east to the Russian border in whatever transport they can find, even taking cars from the civilian population in the areas they had captured since the start of the war in February.

🔗 It is bordered by Togo to the west, by Nigeria to the east and by Burkina Faso and Niger to the north.

🔗 Though Ukrainian officials have been sounding the alarm about new Russian attacks in the east, there is also scepticism on the Ukrainian side about Russian capabilities as those forces currently stand.