Russia has launched what Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov hailed as a second phase of the war in Ukraine, and early indications are it could go better for Russia than the first.
After a ferocious night of artillery bombardment along a 480-kilometer front line in the east, Russian forces took a pocket of territory including the city of Kreminna on Tuesday, according to the Ukrainian regional governor.
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