Russia is looking for weaknesses in the Ukrainian defense near the Seversky Donetsk River in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanik said today.
Russian forces have not stopped trying to launch attacks in the area, he said in a statement on a national television network.
If Russia occupies the cities of Sheverodonetsk and Lysitshansk on the Siversky Donetsk River, it will occupy all of Luhansk, one of the two provinces in the Donbass region claimed by Moscow on behalf of the separatists.
At the same time, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as fierce fighting continues in the Donbas region, Russian forces are advancing on Bakhmut with attacks aimed at apparently cutting off Sheverodonetsk from the supply lines.
“The enemy is moving in the direction of Vozdivizenka-Rotti, it is partly successful,” said the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in his briefing on the situation on the ground today.
These cities are located about 10 kilometers southwest of Bakhmut. From these cities, Russian forces will also be able to bombard the road from Bakhmut to Sheverodonetsk with heavy equipment.
Meanwhile, fighting around Sheverodonetsk continues without significant changes. According to the general staff of the Ukrainian army, Russian forces continue to try “unsuccessfully to gain full control of the city.”
Sheverodonetsk is one of the last cities on the road to Russia to gain control of the Donbass region. Its location on the Seversky Donets River also offers an advantage. The Donbass region is highly industrialized and its control would allow Russia to build a land bridge over the Crimean peninsula, which was annexed by Moscow in 2014.
Now, with regard to Sloviansk, another key strategic target of the Russian-led operation in Donbas, Moscow has focused its forces “on trying to create the conditions for a repeat of the attack,” according to the Ukrainian General Staff. , which also noted that in the last 24 hours, Ukrainian forces have repulsed 7 attacks in Donetsk and Luhansk.
Source: AMPE
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