The Russian military continues its attacks in southeastern Ukraine, although the United States says they have made no significant progress.
Euskaraz irakurri: Errusiak berriro bonbardatu ditu Kharkiv and Odessa, baina oraingoz ez du kontrolpean hartu Donbass eskualdea
Russian forces attacked eastern and southern Ukraine today, coinciding with the Victory Day over Nazi Germany and while Russia has assured that there is no doubt that its military objectives will be achieved, it has still failed to take Donbas 75 days after the offensive began.
The leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, has led a march in the port city of Mariupol holding a 300-meter flag bearing the black and orange colors of the St. George’s ribbon, a widely recognized military symbol in Russia, and shouting: “Hurrah !”
Russia, which took control of the city on April 21, where more than 90% of infrastructure has been destroyed by the Russian military offensive, “is here forever,” he said.
In the regions of Kherson and Zaporizhia (Melitopol) members of the Russian National Guard have participated in Victory Day commemoration events, and there have been marches in memory of the fallen in World War II, according to the official TASS agency.
At the same time as Russia celebrated Victory Day, it hit several regions in eastern and southern Ukraine hard.
Artillery strikes and shelling in the region of Kharkivin the east of the country, the governor, Oleg Synegubov, has caused at least three deaths.
In OdessaIn the south, three Onix supersonic missiles launched from the Bastion coastal system on the annexed Crimean peninsula have destroyed a hotel complex and a restaurant and damaged municipal infrastructure, the prosecutor’s office said.
All this while the President of the European Council, Charles Michael, met the Ukrainian Prime Minister, Denys Shmyhal, in the port city (Black Sea), where he traveled to by surprise. The bombing forced him to seek refuge, according to European sources.
According to the spokesman for the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Oleksandr Motuzyanyk, Russia has deployed seven Kalibr cruise missile launchers with up to 50 grenades in the Black Sea.
No significant progress
According to the US-based Institute for the Study of War, despite attacks to reach the administrative borders of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, Russian forces have “made no substantial territorial gains”.
Russia continues to try to create a pincer between Izium (in the Kharkiv region) and the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, but the recent Ukrainian counterattack on the Russian command in that city forced Russian troops to regroup and to survey the Ukrainian positions before moving southwest and southeast.
In addition, the Ukrainian counter-offensive northeast of the occupied city of Kharkiv “probably forced Russian troops to redeploy, rather than strengthen, stalled Russian offensive operations elsewhere in eastern Ukraine,” experts said.
Despite the fact that troops are trapped in Donbas, the Russian president, Vladimir Putinassured today that “all plans are being carried out. The result will be achieved, there is no doubt about it.”
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Source: EITB
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