According to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a video speech, Russian soldiers are hammering Ukrainian positions with artillery fire and fired about 400 attacks on Sunday in the eastern area alone.
This month, Russia withdrew its troops from the southern city of Kherson and relocated part of them to fortify positions in the Donbas industrial region’s eastern Donetsk and Luhansk areas.
The Donetsk area continues to see the bloodiest combat.
Due to the bad weather, there were fewer strikes today, but Zelenskiy lamented that the level of Russian shelling was still very high.
We are battling and advancing slowly in the Luhansk area.
Since the day’s beginning, there have been about 400 artillery assaults in the east, he said.
Without providing any information, Zelenskiy added that forces in the south were “consistently and very deliberately degrading the potential of the occupiers.”
For the second time in four days that Ukraine has claimed to have inflicted significant fatalities in a single event, Kyiv reported on Saturday that about 60 Russian soldiers had been killed in a long-range artillery bombardment in the south.
According to Oleh Zhdanov, a military expert stationed in Kyiv, offensive engagements were occurring on the Bakhmut and Avdiivka frontlines in the Donetsk area, among other places.
In a video posted on social media, Zhdanov said that “the adversary is trying to break through our fortifications, to no effect.”
We battle back, and they sustain significant casualties.
Both armies, he claimed, are concentrating on regrouping.
Among other places, Ukrainian soldiers are being sent toward Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Zaporizhzhia.
In the direction of Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Luhansk, Russian forces are reorganizing.
Up to 50 Ukrainian military members were killed the day before in the southern Donetsk frontline, while another 50 were killed elsewhere, according to the Russian army ministry on Sunday.
On Saturday, 153 locations where Ukraine’s military personnel and equipment were gathered were destroyed.
A quick verification by Reuters was not possible for either the Russian or Ukrainian claims.
Invading Ukraine is what Russia refers to as a “special operation” to “denazify” and demilitarize” its neighbour. The invasion, according to Kiev and its backers, is an unprovoked act of aggression.
Late on Sunday, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the deputy director of Zelenskiy’s administration, said that Russian soldiers had shot at a house in the Kherson area of southern Ukraine.
“Under the debris, there could be humans. The location is being worked on by emergency personnel, “On the messaging application Telegram, Tymoshenko stated.
Kherson City, the region’s newly retaken capital, continues to be without running water, power, or heating.
(Reuters)
