In the weeks before Russian forces poured across the lightly defended Kharkiv-Belgorod frontier at 5 a.m. on May 10, Ukrainian intelligence analysts watched haplessly as drone video and foreign intelligence reports showed Russian units moving into assembly areas, supply depots stocking up, and myriad other indicators of a large-scale impending Russian attack. They could see the build-up but were unable to hit Russian units and equipment with tube artillery or rockets because of a US policy that prohibits the use of US-manufactured weapons outside of the territory of Ukraine.
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This, along with some other key factors, allowed Russian forces to advance up to four miles to take back some villages liberated by the Ukrainian offensive in the autumn of 2022.
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