After Russia leaves the Kiev region, fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces will focus in the east and south.
The war in Ukraine is centered this week in the donbasaccording to Ukrainian president’s predictions Volodymyr Zelensky and Russia’s own announcement. After Russian troops left the Kiev region, they are now concentrated in the self-declared people’s republics of Donetsk Yes Luganskyrecognized by Moscow.
This week will be “tense” in Donbas as “Russian troops will move there to continue their operations,” Zelensky said in his televised message this morning.
The last part of the Ukrainian army states that “the enemy continues to create an offensive group of troops to act towards Slobozhansky (Dnipro region) and “probably in the coming days the occupiers will try to resume the offensive. “
On the 47th day of the invasion, Russia continues its offensive in Donetsk. The army is trying to take full control of the city of Mariúpol, where only the port and the steel factory of Azovstal are in the hands of the Ukrainian army militias.
On the other hand, the Ukrainian High Command has denounced that “it is possible that the armed forces of the Russian Federation will carry out provocative actions in the Transnistria region”, declaring independence from Moldova but without international recognition, “to accuse Ukraine of aggression against a neighboring state”.
The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Policy, Joseph Borrellfor its part, has also said that Russia is pooling its forces in eastern Ukraine to launch another attack on Donbass.
“I am afraid that Russian troops are gathering in the east to carry out an attack on Donbas, the Ukrainians know that very well. I am afraid that the war will escalate in Donbass in the coming days,” he said.
Borrell explained that he will report to the Foreign Affairs Council on the trip he made to Ukraine last week with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
“We have witnessed what is happening there, the brutal, brutal aggression of the Russian troops against the civilian population,” he said, assuring they have returned “really impressed” by what they saw there.
Source: EITB
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