The New York Times points to a withdrawal of Russian troops from the Kharkov region, despite Russia remaining active there. Efforts to evacuate wounded Ukrainian soldiers at the Azovstal factory in Mariupol, a city under Russian control, continue.
Russian and Ukrainian forces continue their offensives on strategic targets on Day 79 of the war.
The Ukrainian army has claimed to have managed to destroy another one of the ships that Russia keeps stationed in the Black Seanear the so-called Serpent Island, after an attack by his navy.
Serhiy Bratchuk, spokesman for the regional military administration of the city of Odessa, on the Black Sea, announced on his Telegram channel that “as a result of the actions of our navy, the support ship Vsevolod Bobrov, one of the most Russian fleet (launched in 2016), caught fire. Apparently it was badly damaged en route to Sevastopol”, in Russia.
The Russian army focuses its offensive efforts on achieving total control over cities like Rubizhne, in the pro-Russian region of Lugansk, and destroyed the bridge connecting it to Sievierodonetsk to hinder the movements of Ukrainian troops, according to Ukrainian authorities.
The head of the Military Administration of the Lugansk region, Serhii Haidai, today reported on these new movements of Russian troops, an area that also has pro-Russian authorities after it unilaterally declared itself an independent republic.
In fact, Russian progress in this region and neighboring Donestk is aided by the help of the pro-Russian paramilitary forces operating in this area and the new authorities backed by Moscow.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Russian troops attacked a refinery Ukrainian in Kemenchuk, in the center of the country, who supplied the Ukrainian troops?
The factory, located in the Poltava region, has been hit with high-precision weapons. “The factory facilities and tanks with petrol and diesel oil intended to supply the Ukrainian army have been destroyed,” the ministry spokesman said.
It has also reported that it destroyed two Grad rocket launchers, a US-made radar and an SU-27 aircraft in the Kharkov region.
Troop movements and situation in Azovstal
These Russian achievements are in stark contrast to the information recently published by the newspaper New York Timeswhat pointsno alleged withdrawal of Russian troops from the Kharkov . region
The newspaper, citing official Ukrainian and Western allied sources, assures that the Russians have lost ground in the region bordering Donbas.
The Ukrainian authorities are of the opinion that the Kremlin likely to divert troops now to the southeast, where he would reinforce his troops at Izium, a city he captured last month.
izium, About two hours southeast of Kharkov, it has become a crucial center of operations for Russia, which has been trying in recent weeks to create a corridor through which its troops can move from eastern Ukraine to the Crimean peninsula.
To do this, it has redoubled its offensive in Donbas and is trying to take full control of the port city of Mariupol, where only a redoubt of Ukrainian soldiers oppose the anchoring of the Azovstal steel plant.
Exactly, Ukrainian authorities denounced a new attack by Russian troops on the metallurgical plant this Friday Azovstal.
The steel plant is completely surrounded and blocked by the Russian armed forces and the Ukrainian separatist militias, who have demanded that the Ukrainian armed forces, including members of the Azov battalion, of neo-Nazi ideology and integrated into the Interior Ministry, to surrender.
Mediated by the United Nations and following an agreement with Ukraine and Russia, a series of evacuations was carried out last week to remove hundreds of civilians who were detained and had taken refuge in the steel mill because of the fighting in Mariupol.
For its part, the Minister of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, Iryna Vereshchuk, stated this Friday that they are trying to launch a special evacuation operation from Azovstal, which would start with the rescue of seriously injured members of the army and be carried out in several phases.
“Now we are negotiating only to evacuate some 38 seriously wounded fighters (bedridden). We are working step by step. We will exchange those 38 wounded, then we will move forward,” Vereschuk specified in his Telegram account.
Map showing the war situation on May 13 in Ukraine. Europe Press.
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