Coinciding with the intensification of Moscow’s attacks on eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that Donetsk region Witness the fiercest battles.
He clarified in a video address on Sunday evening that Russian forces shelled Ukrainian frontline positions with artillery, noting that the eastern region alone came under nearly 400 attacks yesterday, Sunday.
He added that “the fiercest fighting, as before, is taking place in the Donetsk region.” And she added: “Although there were fewer attacks on Sunday due to bad weather, the volume of Russian bombing is unfortunately still very high.”
Slow movement in Lugansk
As for the Lugansk region, he explained that Ukrainian forces are slowly advancing during the fighting, according to Reuters.
As for the situation in the south, he indicated that his country’s forces were “constantly and calculatedly destroying the capabilities of the occupiers,” but gave no details.
Donbass (Shutterstock)
Recall that Russia had withdrawn its forces from Southern city of Kherson It moved some this month to bolster its positions in eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions, in an industrial area known as Donbass, which was a major blow to its forces and a painful setback, especially as the city it has strategic positions and “also moral importance.
It is the first major Ukrainian city to fall into its hands since the conflict erupted on 24 February.
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It also formed with Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhia, the four regions that the Kremlin announced at the end of last September to annex.
Furthermore, its geographical location is of particular importance, as the region lies on the borders of the Dnipro, Petrovsk and Nikolaev regions, and has land borders with the Crimea to the south, while facing the Black Sea to the southwest, and in the southeast of the Azov Sea.
