Ukrainian servicemen install a machine gun on a tank during repair works in the Donetsk region
(Picture: AP)Vladimir Putin could seek to consolidate Russia’s territorial gains in Ukraine and dig in like a “cancerous growth”, the UK’s Defence Secretary has warned.
Mr Putin has seen his lightning invasion plan, to seize Kyiv within days, fail and now his troops are only making slow progress in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine where they are being redeployed, according to western officials.
