Deadly Russian Missile Strike Hits Apartments in Kryvyi Rih: Ukraine War Live Updates
A Ukrainian soldier with the 35th Marine Brigade outside the village of Makarivka, Ukraine, last week.Credit...Tyler Hicks/The New York TimesExtensive minefields laid by Russian forces are proving among the toughest obstacles facing Ukraine’s counteroffensive, and the tools that Kyiv’s military has for removing them are inadequate, according to experts.Russia has deployed minefields in “innovative ways” as part of multiple lines of defense, according to Rob Lee, a senior fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. In the initial phase of Kyiv’s counteroffensive, which began in early June, Ukrainian forces took significant casualties and were slowed in part because…
