Russian army is still trying to infiltrate of Ukraine Defense in the country’s eastern regions, the Ukrainian General Staff said on Wednesday, as Moscow struggles to regain momentum nearly a year after its offensive began.
Russian artillery, drones and missiles have been relentlessly bombarding Ukraine’s occupied eastern territories for months, indiscriminately hitting civilian targets and causing havoc, since the war largely slowed to a stalemate over the winter. Moscow is hungry for some battlefield success after months of setbacks.
on the one year anniversary of of Russia The battle is drawing near, with weather improving in the spring, with Western officials and analysts saying the fighting could be nearing a critical stage when both sides look to launch an offensive.
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The Kremlin is attempting to secure eastern regions it illegally annexed last September – Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhia regions – and where it claims its rule is welcomed. Pro-Moscow separatists have controlled Donetsk and part of neighboring Luhansk province since 2014.
“The enemy, trying to take full control of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, continues to concentrate its main efforts on conducting offensive operations in the Kupiansk, Liman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Shakhtarsk regions,” the Ukrainian military said in a statement on the two cities. Told by giving reference. provinces as well as on the eastern edge of the neighboring Kharkiv region.
Amid the fighting, Ukrainian Red Cross volunteers are moving stable patients from Donetsk hospitals to medical trains operated by Doctors Without Borders. Trains take patients to safe areas of Ukraine.
The fighting is draining the stockpile of weapons on both sides. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned earlier this week that Ukraine was using up its ammunition far faster than its allies.
Britain’s Defense Ministry said on Wednesday that Russia’s military industrial production is “becoming a serious weakness”.
US defense officials say Iran is helping the Kremlin maintain the bombings in Ukraine by supplying attack drones.
A US think tank said Kiev’s defense of Bakhmut, a mining town that has been a key target of Russia’s campaign in the past for months, remained “strategically sound” as it slowed Moscow’s advance. Was.
The Institute for the Study of War said late Tuesday that Kiev’s defense had “let down significant Russian forces”, including units from Wagner Group, a Russian private military contractor.
Some analysts doubted the wisdom of Ukraine holding on to Bakhmut as it could hurt its chances of an expected spring offensive.
Meanwhile, support among the American public for providing arms and direct economic aid to Ukraine has waned, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Forty-eight percent of those interviewed said they were in favor of the US providing arms to Ukraine. In May last year, 60 percent of US adults said they were in favor of sending arms to Ukraine.
The war has caused widespread suffering, and the global economy is still feeling its consequences. Emerging economies, in particular, have felt the crunch.
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