Russian forces continue their successive attacks to take over the cities Bahamut and Abdiivkain eastern Ukrainebut they are not making progress, the general staff of the Ukrainian army claimed, while on the contrary a pro-Russian official said that an advance was being made.
These two towns, like other communities along the front line in Donetsk Oblast, have turned into focus of recent hostilities. “The enemy continues its assault on the city of Bahamut. But our defenders are courageously holding the city, repelling numerous enemy attacks,” the Ukrainian army staff said, citing 57 attacks.
Britain’s Ministry of Defense gave a slightly different pictureannouncing, as reported by the Athens Agency, that the Russian forces scored only “marginal progress” in their attempt to surround Avdiivka and they lost many armored fighting vehicles and tanks.
On the contrary, Denis Pushilin, a pro-Russian leader in Donetsk; stated that most Ukrainian forces withdrew from metallurgy in the western part of Bakhmut and that Russian forces were advancing.
As Western-made heavy tanks begin arriving in Ukraine and the scenario of a Ukrainian spring counteroffensive intensifies, Russia’s RIA news agency reported that Moscow sent hundreds of new and refurbished tanks.
In his evening sermon Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskywho visited two cities in the north and trenches near the border with Russiajudged that the Western reaction to the Russian military invasion of Ukrainewhich started more than a year ago, may lead to “an end to the Russian offensive much sooner than is said.”
Meanwhile Russia — which it announced over the weekend that it will develop “regular” nuclear weapons to its neighbor and ally Belarus, which US President Joe Biden called “dangerous” and “disturbing” — began high schools with the participation of thousands of its army men, in which the Yars intercontinental ballistic missile will be tested. In the West, high schools are perceived as show of force and Moscow’s nuclear weapons.
Rafael Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, visits the Russian-controlled nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia, the largest in Europe (six reactors). Grossi stressed to Reuters that his effort to reach an agreement to guarantee the safety of the factory continues.
Source: News Beast
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