New Delhi, June 14 -- MOSCOW - Three months after Russia shifted the main thrust of its Spring-Summer offensive toward Konstantinovka, the pressure cracked something beyond a front line on Sunday. Kyiv ordered the evacuation of key industrial enterprises and their workers from Kramatorsk and Druzhkivka, the Russian Defense Ministry announced - a signal that Ukraine's military and economic planners no longer believe the city's industrial base has time to wait.

the Kramatorsk evacuation was not the result of a Russian strike, but of Russian "successful actions and advance."

Konstantinovka sits on the H-20 highway, the most direct route south toward Kramatorsk. It is the southernmost city of what military analysts call the Fortress Belt - ...