Russia puts more force behind Ukraine’s ‘creeping’ advance
Russia has more power behind Ukraine’s “creeping” progress
Ukrainian officials say powerful forces backed by air strikes attacked a part of eastern Ukraine on Saturday, blowing up bridges and firing on apartment buildings as they fought for control of two cities to bring the disputed province under Moscow’s control.
Regional Governor Serihai Haidai said Russian and Ukrainian forces had clashed on the streets of Sivirodnetsk and neighboring Lysinsk. Haidai said the Russian attack killed four people, including a mother and child, in the nearby village of Hirsch.
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The last major areas of the Lugansk Oblast are still in the hands of Ukraine. The Russian attacks centered on the Kremlin’s narrow wartime occupation of the entire Donbass region, where Moscow-backed separatists have been fighting Ukrainian forces for eight years and establishing a self-proclaimed republic.
Ukraine’s military says Russia has stepped up attacks in other provinces, including Donetsk and Donbass, as the war enters its 101st day.
Reflecting the violence, Russian and Ukrainian military officials blamed each other for destroying the 1912 wooden church in Saviohirsk Bihar, one of the holiest Orthodox Christian sites in Ukraine.
The sprawling 16th-century monastery on the banks of the Sivarsky Donets River was attacked several times before the war, most recently on Wednesday when three monks were killed.
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In a video speech late Saturday night, President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of deliberately and deliberately destroying Ukrainian culture and historical heritage, including social infrastructure such as housing and everything necessary for normal life.
Zelensky said 113 churches were damaged or destroyed during the attack, including some survivors of World War II.
In recent times, Russian forces have focused on the occupation of Sivirodnetsk, which had a population of about 100,000 before the war. At one point they controlled 0% of the city, but Ukrainian troops regained some ground, Haidai reported on Friday. Zelensky described the situation in the city on Saturday as “extremely difficult.”
Western military analysts say Russia is deploying significant military force and firearms to British officials in what is being called a “creeping advance.”
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The combined use of air and artillery strikes is a key factor in Russia’s recent strategic success in the region, the UK Ministry of Defense said in an assessment on Saturday.
The ministry warned that after launching so many guided missiles, Russia was using indiscriminate missiles that “almost certainly caused considerable damage and civilian casualties.”
The Ukrainian military says it has repelled nine attacks on Donbass in two hours. Claim could not be independently verified.
Ukraine has launched a counter-attack in an attempt to retake territory in the south as Russian forces are heavily deployed in Donbass.
After occupying the Kherson and Dnipropetrovsk regions, as well as the port city of Mariupol, Moscow installed local administrators, issued Russian passports to residents, and took other steps to consolidate its control over the occupied territories.
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At least three civilians have been killed in Russian shelling in the Black Sea port city of Mykolaiv, Mayor Oleksandr Senkevich said on Saturday.
The Washington-based think tank Institute for the Study of War says Russian-installed officers and soldiers face growing resistance among the local population and “increased biased activity in southern Ukraine.”
Threats against locals with Russian passports have been cited by the institute on the Russian Telegram channel.
The Ukrainian Center for National Resistance, which creates a website that advises people on sabotage and other tactics, said Kherson residents were encouraged to burn down a Russian passport center.
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The Ukrainian military says the Russian-installed leaders in Kherson wore bulletproof jackets and traveled in armored vehicles, citing problems faced by the occupying authorities.
Other developments:
– Ukraine’s foreign minister has condemned France’s president, saying Western Russian President Vladimir Putin should not be “insulted”.
In an interview with a French newspaper on Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron said Putin had made a promise.
Russia puts more force behind Ukraine’s ‘creeping’ advance
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