Ukraine’s armed forces suffered considerable territorial losses over the weekend despite receiving a large military aid package from the U.S. in April, The New York Times reported.
From Friday to Sunday, Russian forces captured more square miles per day than they have at nearly any point of the Russia-Ukraine war other than its earliest days, taking nine villages in Ukraine’s north while defending fighters fell back, according to the Times.
The Russian advances came just weeks after Congress approved a $61 billion infusion of military aid for the Ukrainian forces April 21, proponents of which argued that the aid was essential for Ukraine to withstand the invasion.
“The first line of fortifications and mines just didn’t exist,” Denys Yaroslavsky, a Ukrainian reconnaissance commander, wrote in a post on Facebook. “The enemy freely entered the gray…
