“It’s almost certainly an attempt by Ukraine to distract Russian defences in the south… and force Putin to move his troops north to protect the Russian border.”
The Freedom of Russia Legion, a group of Ukraine-backed Russian partisans, attacked checkpoints along the border with infantry fighting vehicles as they crossed into Russia, The Times’ assistant foreign editor Maxim Tucker tells #TimesRadio.
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