NEW: Russia's war in Ukraine looks set to enter a potentially more brutal and focused phase in the east, experts say, as fighting shifts away from Kyiv and into Ukraine's industrial heartland.
, a notorious commander who led Russia’s forces in Syria and has a history of targeting civilians, has been appointed to lead the new offensive.
“This means that the danger of Ukrainian forces being surrounded and overwhelmed in the eastern part of the country, which has been present since the very beginning of this campaign, is now even greater,” he said. As for the battle itself, Kuleba warns it could be very different than the intense street fighting around Kyiv and could, with engagement across open fields and plains, featuring thousands of tanks, planes and armored vehicles. Ukraine is desperate for Western allies to provide more of those war machines sooner rather than later.
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