Ukraine began offensive attacks on the Donbass front. they made progress Various settlements of the Donetsk region (especially in Ivanivske and Vasylivka), as confirmed by the Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Hanna Malyar on the Telegram social network. However, there is no official confirmation as to whether these attacks were part of the expected full-scale counterattack. Russia, for its part, claimed to have repelled a “major offensive” in the Donetsk region. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, six motorized and two tank battalions participated in the attack, “The enemy launched a full-scale attack on five areas of the front south of Donetsk.” Kiev called it propaganda aimed at demoralizing to the people of Ukraine. The Belgorod region of Russia, which has turned into a front, continues under enemy fire.
The Ukrainian government has asked everyone to have discretion. increase the effectiveness of the attack reclaim their land. He shared a video on social media showing the soldiers making a hush sign. But experts think it’s possible.
“Over the past week and a half, there have been some pretty strong indications that the attack was coming: President Zelensky and the Secretary of Defense were ready and they approved the attack plan. They even gave an indicative figure of one week left,” he says. William Pulido, PhD candidate in Strategic Studies and analyst at the journal Ejércitos. “Since the arrival of the Storm Shadow missiles, we’ve had a pretty strong In-depth attacks against Russian deployment and preparatory suppression attacks (against the Zaporizhia land bridge and southern Donetsk), but we do not know how effective they were.”
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According to Russia, Ukraine lost more than 250 men and 16 tanks, in addition to armored vehicles, in an offensive that began this Sunday, and “made new attempts to attack south of Donetsk with three tactical battalions.” The powers imposed by Russia in the Zaporozhye region (south) confirmed the escalation of hostilities in this part of the front, EFE reported. “In the morning the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a stronger attack on us than the day before (…) The situation is alarming,” wrote Vladimir Rogov, head of the movement “Together with Russia” in Zaporizhia. This attack is aimed at Kiev’s intention to divide the land corridor between Russia and Crimea in two.
Ukraine denies this was an expected counterattack and accuses Russia of conducting “psychological information operations” to spread a sense of failure in its ranks. “They plan to intensify the dissemination of unreliable information about the combat operations of the Ukrainian Army,” said the Center for Strategic Communications. armed forces.
The American Institute for War Studies (ISW) confirmed Ukraine’s “limited” advance in the western part of Donetsk and eastern Zaporizhia, after analyzing the geographic location of the videos located one hundred kilometers east of the regional capital, northeast of Rivnopil.
Attacks in Belgorod
Moreover There are violent clashes in the Belgorod regionIt is on the border with Ukraine, where Russian paramilitary groups fighting on the Ukrainian side continue to conduct periodic raids on Russian territory with the support of Ukrainian artillery.
Belgorod governor Viacheslav Gladkov today condemned large-scale bombardments in border towns, especially in the Shebékino region, at which the Ukrainian Army will fire 611 rounds. Faced with the obvious worsening of the situation in Belgorod, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov offered today to send troops to the region. For his part, Wagner’s chief, Yevgueni Prigozhin, assured that he had received messages from Belgorod residents asking him to go to him. Help protect the 540 km border with Ukraine.