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Russian forces pierce Ukraine lines in isolated advance
Ukraine’s army acknowledged Russian gains after reporting Tuesday’s fighting near Kucheriv Yar in Donetsk
Russia’s military has in recent months secured incremental gains while claiming four Ukrainian regions under annexation. (Russian Defence Ministry/AP pic)
KYIV: Russian forces have rapidly advanced in a narrow but important sector of the front line, the Ukrainian military and analysts said Tuesday, days ahead of a meeting between the Russian and US presidents.
Moscow’s army, which invaded Ukraine in 2022, has made costly but incremental gains across the sprawling front in recent months and claims to have annexed four Ukrainian regions while still fighting to control them.
The Ukrainian army said in a statement on Tuesday that there had been fighting around the village of Kucheriv Yar in the Donetsk region, acknowledging Russian gains.
The Ukrainian DeepState blog, which retains close connections with the military, showed Russian advances around 10km (6 miles) over around two days.
The corridor now under Russian control threatens the town of Dobropillya, a mining town that civilians are fleeing and that has been coming under Russian drone attacks.
It also threatens the embattled and destroyed town of Kostiantynivka, which is one of the last large urban areas in the Donetsk region still held by Ukraine.
A popular military blogger, Sternenko, wrote on Telegram that Russian forces during the advance had taken control of parts of a highway connecting important population centres in Donetsk.
“The situation is critical,” he wrote earlier.
The Institute for the Study of War, a US-based observatory, meanwhile said, “Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups are reportedly infiltrating areas near Dobropillya.”
“It is premature to call the Russian advances in the Dobropillya area an operational-level breakthrough,” it added, cautioning that the coming days would be key to fending off the attack.
US President Donald Trump, who is scheduled to meet Vladimir Putin on Friday has described the summit as a “feel-out meeting” to gauge the Russian leader’s ideas for ending the war in Ukraine.
European leaders meanwhile are rushing to ensure respect for Kyiv’s interests.
Moscow’s army, which invaded Ukraine in 2022, has made costly but incremental gains across the sprawling front in recent months and claims to have annexed four Ukrainian regions while still fighting to control them.
The Ukrainian army said in a statement on Tuesday that there had been fighting around the village of Kucheriv Yar in the Donetsk region, acknowledging Russian gains.
The Ukrainian DeepState blog, which retains close connections with the military, showed Russian advances around 10km (6 miles) over around two days.
The corridor now under Russian control threatens the town of Dobropillya, a mining town that civilians are fleeing and that has been coming under Russian drone attacks.
It also threatens the embattled and destroyed town of Kostiantynivka, which is one of the last large urban areas in the Donetsk region still held by Ukraine.
A popular military blogger, Sternenko, wrote on Telegram that Russian forces during the advance had taken control of parts of a highway connecting important population centres in Donetsk.
“The situation is critical,” he wrote earlier.
The Institute for the Study of War, a US-based observatory, meanwhile said, “Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups are reportedly infiltrating areas near Dobropillya.”
“It is premature to call the Russian advances in the Dobropillya area an operational-level breakthrough,” it added, cautioning that the coming days would be key to fending off the attack.
US President Donald Trump, who is scheduled to meet Vladimir Putin on Friday has described the summit as a “feel-out meeting” to gauge the Russian leader’s ideas for ending the war in Ukraine.
European leaders meanwhile are rushing to ensure respect for Kyiv’s interests.
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European leaders want Ukraine to fight to the LAST Ukrainian
Of course Ukraine will fight to the last bullet and the last Ukrainian.
ReplyDeleteIt is their Tanah Air that is being invaded by Russian aggressors.
wakakakaka… 小国的资废 fully exhibited by a comedian president!
DeleteFrance's great shame in WW2 was the way it surrendered to the Nazi invaders without really fighting an all out defence, the way Great Britain and USSR did. Their heart just wasn't in the fight.
ReplyDeleteFrance has been overcompensating for the shame in the last 78.years with it's often overbearing nationalism, refusing to cooperate with other countries on military matters, even withdrawing from.NATO at one point.
There is an unwashable stain and shame attached to not defending your Homeland to the utmost against a foreign invader...but Ukraine is not going suffer that stigma.
The problem with all these people who sneer at Ukraine, from Trump to MAGA idiots to Syed Bodoh to Ktemoc, is they just don't accept Ukraine is a sovereign people with centuries of its own identity - not some renegade Russians pretending to be a nation.
ReplyDeleteUkraine is "supposed" to surrender to Russia , and other countries that provide aid to Ukraine are purely fighting a proxy war.
Crap
A small country must know its place in the scheme of geopolitical manipulations.
DeletePlaying to the tune of spurious ideological NATO is a known disaster falling right infront of its fate.
Ukraine can easily avoiding such fate by staying neutral in the game of NATO eastward expansion to threaten Russia. Russia might not be in the same league as SovietUnion but it's still a formidable military power that not even the Yank is willing to confront directly.
Ukraine for all her wants, acts as the sacrificial lamb in a losing & exhausting war for the puppeteers of the Europe geopolitical play.
That fate is WELL deserved!
1. The Biggest country in the world by far want more territory, RAMPAS Ukraine - OK
ReplyDelete2. Richest country in the world want to RAMPAS Taiwan and SCS - OK
One of the smallest sovereign countries in the world, the size of Perak, fighting for its survival against terrorist who attacked first - not OK?
1) Ukraine openly asking for it.
DeleteWhat one can't get from the negotiation table, one gets them from the battlefield.
2) what is the basic of yr meeting RAMPAS?
Own the house yet cannot live in it, right, mfer?
3) that mfering 'sovereign' nation is forcefully built on other natives land by a bunch of Europe rejected extremist dickheads. It should have been eliminated long long time ago from the land of Levant if not due to the manipulations of the zionist elite deepstates working behind the political scenes in most of the western nations.