In a significant victory, Russia has taken the Ukrainian town of Vuhledar after two years of resistance

Ukrainian soldiers have have spent the last two years fighting tooth and nail in the key front-line town of Vuhledar to resist repeated Russian attack.But this week, those troops received an order to pull back from the town in the country’s eastern Donetsk region to avoid encirclement by Russian troops and “preserve personnel and military equipment”, Ukraine’s eastern military command confirmed. The advance of Moscow’s forces means that Russian troops are now in complete control of the town — which Russia has long regarded as one of Ukraine’s toughest fortified positions to crack.Loading…The capture is a major boost for the Kremlin and has confirmed Russia’s vast superiority in men and material as Ukraine pleads for more weapons from the Western allies that have been supporting it.But how significant is it really? Here’s what we know. What is Vuhledar? Vuhledar is on strategic high ground in eastern Ukraine that has resisted Russian assaults since Moscow’s full-scale…