![]() The spokeswoman for Ukraine’s Southern Military Command said Russian forces were suffering severe shortages of equipment, including ammunition, because of the damage inflicted last weekend in by an explosion on a bridge linking the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula with Russia. The river flows south into the Siversky Donets, which snakes through eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region. In Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, Russia said it destroyed three US-manufactured howitzers and a crossing point on the Oskil River set up by Ukrainian forces to move reserves and ammunition. Russian forces have repeatedly tried to seize Bakhmut, which sits on a main road leading to the cities of Slovyansk and Kramatorsk, both in the Donetsk region.Īlthough Ukrainian troops have recaptured thousands of square kilometres of land in their recent counteroffensives in the east and south, officials said progress is likely to slow once Kyiv’s forces meet more determined Russian resistance. Pro-Russian separatist forces have pressed ahead east and south of Bakhmut, relying on their base in the city of Donetsk, 100km (62 miles) away. Ukrainian soldiers still control the northern and western parts of the city. “The key hot spots in Donbas are Soledar and Bakhmut,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday fighting was raging in the area. ![]() While Russia has been falling back across much of Ukraine, in the eastern city of Bakhmut in Donetsk, Ukraine troops are on the defensive. Its military has recaptured cities, towns and villages that Russia took early in the war. The war’s momentum has shifted towards Ukraine after it launched a series of counterattacks seven weeks ago. There was no immediate reaction from Ukraine to the attack on Donetsk city, which was annexed by Russian-backed separatists in 2014 along with a large part of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. It is a miracle nobody was killed,” Alexey Kulemzin said while surveying the wreckage. Shelling by Ukrainian forces damaged the administration building in the city of Donetsk, capital of the Donetsk region, the head of its Russian-backed administration said on Sunday. “During the past 24 hours, the Russian armed forces continued to strike with high-precision, long-range, air-launched weapons at military command and control facilities as well as the energy system of Ukraine,” Konashenkov said. Konashenkov acknowledged that Russia attacked Ukrainian regions on Sunday. They were three of the four provinces Russian President Vladimir Putin proclaimed as part of Russia last month. Russian forces targeted more than 30 towns and villages across Ukraine, launching five missiles and 23 air strikes and up to 60 rocket attacks, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said.įighting was particularly intense in the eastern provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk and the strategically important Kherson province. Shtupun said the Ukrainian army carried out 20 attacks over the past day. Ukrainian army spokesman Oleksandr Shtupun said the Russians began the evacuation of “state institutions” from the Kherson region to Crimea. Ukraine’s presidential office said Moscow’s military shelled towns and villages along the front line in the east and “active hostilities” continued in the Kherson region. “The Russian army units held their positions in fierce battles, inflicting significant losses on the enemy,” he said.Īl Jazeera could not independently verify the battlefield reports. “The enemy made attempts to break through the defence of the Russian troops in the areas of Koshara and Pyatykhatky in the Kherson region with forces of up to three battalions, including one tank battalion,” chief defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said. Russian soldiers held their positions during “fierce fighting” in the Kherson region and Ukrainian troops were also targeted in the eastern region of Donetsk, Russia’s defence ministry said on Sunday. Russia says its forces have battled oncoming Ukraine troops to a standstill in the country’s south and inflicted “significant losses”.
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