The lightning speed offensive saw Russian troops breaching through defence lines in eastern Ukraine in a dramatic two-pronged attack.

And it could give Putin an upper hand when he meets the US President for the historic peace summit on Friday.

Top diplomats from the US and Russia are currently working on an agreement to finalise post-war territories, senior officials told Bloomberg.

But in the last few days, Russian sabotage and reconnaissance units pushed some six to 15 miles deep into Ukrainian territory near the town of Dobropillia in Donetsk.

The catastrophic breakthrough is set to help Moscow, which currently controls over 70 per cent of the highly-contested Donetsk region.

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