The troops of the invading army harass Severodonetsk and turn back bridges to prevent the arrival of reinforcements
Mijailo Podoliak, the adviser to President Volodímir Zelensky, launched a disturbing forecast in recent hours: “The war could last between two and six months.” A wide range that underpinned a well-known argument: the fighting will last more or less depending on the capacity of Ukraine’s arsenals and ultimately on whether the international community increases its military support. A bad omen, at least for a conflict that lasted more than a hundred days this week, in which reports from the battlefield have been referring for weeks to systematic attacks, destruction and deaths concentrated in the Donbas region.
Russia gathers the bulk of its forces on that eastern flank and continues to harass Severodontesk, a strategic enclave for its purpose of controlling the entire mining account. And this is where the conflicting messages come back. While Ukraine claims it has “recaptured 20 percent of the territory” it lost in Severodonetsk, Russia assures its troops will continue to occupy positions with artillery cover. And at any cost. Local authorities accused the invading army this Saturday of blowing up bridges across the Seversky Donets River to prevent the arrival of military reinforcements and “deliver aid to civilians”.
Also stifling is the situation in Lysychansk, near Severodonetsk, where, according to Mayor Oleksandr Zaika, 60% of the houses have been destroyed and internet, mobile phone and gas connections have been cut. War of attrition also over Sloviansk, where there are still 25,000 civilians, also without basic facilities and with enemy troops less than ten kilometers away.
All the intruder’s attacks in the area. Even with air strikes increasing by the day, the British Ministry of Defense said. Moscow also claimed to have destroyed an artillery training center of the Ukrainian armed forces with missiles in the Sumy region, in the northeast of the country. And shooting down a military transport plane.
A version of robustness, that of the Kremlin, which is bursting with messages such as the one broadcast on Telegram on Saturday, in which a soldier identified as the commander of the 113 Regiment of the Republic of Donetsk assures that the Russian soldiers will be sent “to the slaughterhouse without adequate weapons” and that they suffer from a lack of food and medicine.
Source: La Verdad
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