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EXPLAINER: How Russia’s eastern push in Ukraine may unfold

FILE - Security forces help an injured man following a Russian bombing of a factory in Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine, April 19, 2022. Russia’s new offensive in the east reflects Moscow’s hope to reverse its battlefield fortunes after a catastrophic seven weeks of war. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

FILE - A Ukrainian soldier walks past a Russian tank after recent battles at the village of Moshchun close to Kyiv, Ukraine, April 19, 2022. Russia’s new offensive in the east reflects Moscow’s hope to reverse its battlefield fortunes after a catastrophic seven weeks of war. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

FILE - The tail of a missile sticks out in a residential area in Yahidne, near Dnipro, Ukraine, April 12, 2022. Russia’s new offensive in the east reflects Moscow’s hope to reverse its battlefield fortunes after a catastrophic seven weeks of war. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

FILE - Russian military vehicles move on a highway in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces near Mariupol, Ukraine, April 18, 2022. Mariupol, a strategic port on the Sea of Azov, has been besieged by Russian troops and separatist forces in eastern Ukraine for more than six weeks. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov, File)

EXPLAINER: How Russia’s eastern push in Ukraine may unfold