Ukrainian troops increase their advance by another twelve kilometers, threaten the strategic transport hub of the city of Kreminna and approach Lugansk
After the liberation of the strategic city of Liman last Saturday, Ukrainian forces continue to push eastwards into the Donetsk region. This Monday they recovered the town of Torske, very close to the border with the neighboring region of Lugansk. This was announced by the spokesman of the eastern group of the Kiev army, Serhiy Cherevati, in front of the television cameras. The presence of Ukrainian soldiers in Torske was also confirmed by the head of the loyal government of Lugansk, Serhiy Gaidai.
Torske, some twelve kilometers east of Liman, is in the advance of Ukrainian forces, twenty-two kilometers from Kreminna, a major transport hub in the Luhansk region, from which they could advance southeast to recapture Lisichansk and Severodonetsk. According to Cherevati, Ukrainian units are being attacked with artillery fire to prevent their advance, while Russian forces and Lugansk separatists are trying to build a defense line in Kreminna that will allow them to gain a foothold and repel the offensive.
The military spokesman also referred to Kremlin soldiers surrounded in Limán, pointing out that “some were liquidated, others were captured and some managed to escape in columns of vehicles or small groups.” But Cherevati warned that “these Russian units that have withdrawn from Liman are trying to hide in the forest, in an area with a lot of mines.” The Ukrainian army also reported taking the villages of Miroliubovka, between the towns of Mykolaiv and Kherson, and, further northeast, Gavrilovka, near Zolotaya Balka, which was salvaged last weekend.
Meanwhile, the Moscow Ministry of Defense reported the arrival in Lugansk of the first Russian reservists, mobilized after the decree of the president, Vladimir Putin, on September 21 to join the front. Taking control of the four newly annexed regions – Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya – is precisely the most important mission for which the reservists are currently mobilized.
The State Duma (lower house of the Russian parliament) also unanimously approved today, without votes against and without abstentions, the annexation treaties of these four territories after Putin signed them with respective separatist leaders in the Kremlin last Friday. . The ratification will be passed tomorrow to the Council of the Federation (Upper House) to later acquire the category of the law once the Russian president has signed it. Together with the Crimea, a peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014, they cover 20% of the surface of Ukraine. However, as the cases of Kherson, Donetsk and also Zaporizhzhya show, the Kremlin army does not yet fully control these regions.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov clarified that the annexed area of Donetsk and Lugansk is the area corresponding to the 2014 administrative limits. However, he did not know how to answer the journalists clearly what it will be like in Kherson’s cases. and Zaporizhia. He said that “we will continue to consult with the people of these regions to determine their borders.” Peskov was then asked whether or not the areas of Kherson and Zaporizhia under the control of the Ukrainian army are part of Russia, to which he replied by saying, “I have nothing more to add now.” Nor could he answer the question of how this consultation with the population will take place, whether or not via a next referendum or how.
What Peskov did explain is that “Ukraine’s orientation towards NATO and the confirmation of its future integration into the bloc became one of the reasons for the special military operation”, a name used by the Russian authorities to describe the invasion. which was launched in February. 24. According to the presidential spokesman, Moscow is “monitoring” closely the situation regarding Kiev’s future relationship with the Alliance after the president, Volodymyr Zelensky, applied for membership last Friday in response to the annexations.
Source: La Verdad
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