The day after the EU reviewed Q’s candidacy, Ukrainians on Friday ordered the withdrawal of troops from the strategic city of Chevrolet Donetsk, a sign of Moscow’s progress towards the goal of capturing Donbass en masse.
In the Russian-controlled south, an official of the occupation administration was killed in an attack, according to pro-Russian officials. This is the first time they have reported the death of one of their own in this increasing type of attack.
On Friday morning, Serguiï Gaïdaï, governor of Lugansk (eastern) province, located in Severodonetsk, announced in a telegram that the Ukrainian armed forces had “received orders” to leave the city.
Severdonetsk, which has been bombed by Russian forces for weeks, is an important step in their plan to capture the entire industrial area of Donbass in eastern Ukraine.
The governor explained that in Chevroletonetsk “there is no point in staying in positions that have been bombed continuously for months”, while the city is “almost ruined” by a series of bombings.
Located across the Donetsk River on the Chevrolet Donetsk and its twin city, Lisitsansk, is now almost completely surrounded by Russian troops, who eat up many parts of the country every day.
Mr Kaitoi said the city of Mykolaivka, 20 kilometers southwest of Lysytchansk, was “lost” and in the hands of the Russian military, and that the Russians were now trying to capture the neighboring town of “Kirske”.
But in the opposite camp, Andrei Marochko, a representative of pro-Russian separatists, said in a telegram on Friday that all villages in the Girské region were already under Russian or pro-Russian control.
“Summer is hot”
On Thursday, AFP reporters leaving Lysytchansk had to jump out of their car twice and lie on the ground on the main access road to the city, bombed by Grad missiles by Russian forces.
Many vehicles were on the road at the time: trailer trucks, tanks, armored vehicles, jeeps and ambulances moving back and forth.
Lyciansansk appeared to be preparing for the arrival of the Russians on Thursday. The main police station was closed after the blast on Monday. Debris and walls were badly damaged across the entrance steps. “People say all the police have left,” a firefighter told AFP when questioned at the main municipal barracks.
At the entrance to the city, somewhat without water, gas and electricity, Ukrainian soldiers were digging trenches, apparently in preparation for a Russian attack.
Another sign of Ukraine’s military problems, and the governor of Donetsk, another Donbass province in the south, told the AFP on Thursday that “any city” in the area under his administration was “safe” for its citizens. Very violent.
The vice-president pointed out in the Telegram that “Dmitry Savlutchenko, head of the Department of Youth and Sports Family, is dead” in Kerson (south), one of the country’s largest cities captured by the Russians in the conflict. The pro-Russian administration, like Grill Stremosov, condemned it as an “act of terrorism” like Moscow.
The officer, who was killed in his car explosion, was the victim of a “target” attack, according to local administration.
In recent weeks, Ukrainian forces have returned to attack the region in an attempt to retake territory lost in the February 24 invasion. Attacks targeting occupying officers, many of whom were wounded, escalated in parallel in Gerson and neighboring Zaporizhia.
Russia has intensified its offensive against the large city of Kharkiv in the northeast for several days.
The AFP team at the scene heard loud explosions in the city center at night and later noted that Kharkiv’s Polytechnic had been hit by several missiles on Friday morning. All the windows of the Soviet building were broken and a large reinforced concrete gymnasium was destroyed. Part of its roof collapsed. No casualties were reported, according to one soldier who was there.
The Russians “thought there might be some army there, but it did not,” he said.
The Russian military on Friday said it had killed more than 200 foreign mercenaries with “high-precision weapons” and hundreds of Ukrainian nationals in the Mykoliv (southern) and Kharkiv regions.
Ukrainian forces, overwhelmed by Russian gunfire, are relying on the relentless demand for heavy weapons from Western allies, such as the American Himmars multiple rocket launchers, whose arrival was forecast to be “summer hot” on Thursday. Russian occupiers “.
At the border, the number of Ukrainians coming to Poland this week is more than income, changing the trend seen for more than a month, we learned from the Polish border guards on Friday.
The development comes as Russian forces continue to bomb major cities, destroying some large businesses, such as the Kremensuk oil refinery, and leaving thousands unemployed, AFP chief AFP told AFP. Natalia Panchenko of the Ukrainian organization “Euromajdan Warsaw” in Poland.
This article was automatically published. Sources: ats / afp
“Avid gamer. Social media geek. Proud troublemaker. Thinker. Travel fan. Problem solver.”