According to the latest data from Kiev, Ukrainian forces control more than 80 cities and 1,150 square kilometers in Kursk. In Donetsk, authorities in the Pokrovsk district have admitted that Russian troops are only 10.5 kilometers away.
This Friday, Ukraine continues its offensive in the Russian Kursk region As Russia consolidates its advance on the Eastern Front, in contest that takes on the appearance of a duel in order to deliver the most painful blow possible to the enemy in various theatres of operations.
The reports of the Russian military command clearly show that the attempts of the Ukrainian armed forces to expand the Russian territory under their control do not stop.
“We need to inflict major tactical defeats on Russia. In the Kursk region, we can clearly see how the military instrument is used objectively to convince Russia to take initiatives. a fair negotiation process“, he wrote in X Mijailo Podoliakadviser to the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky.
The presidential adviser stressed that the Ukrainian attack on Kursk, which began on the 6th, is also an “important tool for influence public opinion in Russiathat begins to change as war encroaches on its territory.
According to the latest data from Kiev, Ukrainian troops control the Kursk region more than 80 locations and a territory of 1,150 square kilometers.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported today that the country’s military has repelled several attacks in that border area and bombed enemy positions in the neighboring Ukrainian province of Ukraine. Sumyfrom where Kiev launched its ground invasion, the first Russia has suffered on its soil since World War II.
Reversed situation on the Eastern Front
While in Kursk Ukrainian troops are keeping Russian forces under pressure, in the Donbass on the eastern front the situation is exactly the opposite. The authorities of the Ukrainian district Pokrovskadmitted in Donetsk on Friday that Russian troops are only 10.5 kilometers away and have accepted the recommendation of evacuate the area.
Volodymyr Zamotaevthe head of the district administration, whose eponymous capital had a population of about 60,000 before the war, said the situation was now “threatening.”
The city’s military chief Mirnograd, Yuri Tretiakhas in turn stated that there are still 20,000 civilians in the city, located between Pokrovsk and the front, including 1,000 children, and has urged the population to leave as soon as possible.
According to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army, 144 clashes were recorded across the country over the past day, including 41 enemy attacks in the Pokrovsk sector, where Russia has made slow but steady advances in recent days.
The Russian Defense Ministry, in turn, reported that Russian troops have taken control of the city Sergyivka and continued their advance towards the city Kramatorskone of the main Ukrainian strongholds in the Donetsk region.
From Sergiivka the Moscow troops Kramatorsk within cannon shotsince they are only ten kilometers apart.
Source: EITB
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