Russia is increasing the speed of its advance in eastern Ukraine, encircling the region of Pokrovsk, a “key” city, to gain a strategic advantage in seizing the rest of the Donbas region, according to the New York Times, while at the same time launching a major counteroffensive in Russia’s Kursk region, according to reports.
Pokrovsk is at the center of many railway and road lines for the whole of Donbas. A successful Russian attack would cut off the main troop supply lines to the remaining Ukrainian strongholds across the region and put Moscow’s forces in a position to threaten Ukrainian positions south of the city.
In the last week, Ukraine has sent additional troops to defend the lines around Pokrovsk. Russia is making a frontal attack on the city with attacks to the south, to widen the front and threaten the encirclement of Ukrainian troops between Pokrovsk and Kurakhovo. The semicircle that Russia has formed in the region is a tactic known as creating a “cauldron.”
The advance to Pokrovsk was the most successful part of the Russian offensive in Donbass this summer. Elsewhere, he attacked along most of the eastern front, but after months of hard fighting made only modest gains. A year-long attack on the hilltop town of Chasiv Yar, for example, advanced about three miles.
Meanwhile, Ukraine launched a surprise invasion of the Kursk region in August. It has seized more territory in Russia in one month than Russia has in Ukraine in the last year, although its holding of gains in Russia has yet to be tested in a serious counterattack.
But Russia continued to advance in the Donbas, and President Vladimir V. Putin said the Russian military would not divert forces from the region to counter the Ukrainian advance into Russia.
Russian forces push back Ukrainian troops in Kursk
Russia launched a major counterattack in his region Kurskin another turn that the war with Ukraine is taking lately.
Russian forces have launched a major counteroffensive against Ukrainian troops who entered western Russia last month and have recaptured some ground, bloggers who support Moscow’s war say.
On August 6, Ukraine launched the largest foreign offensive against Russia since World War II, crossing the border and invading the Kursk region with thousands of troops backed by swarms of drones and heavy weapons, including Western weapons. construction.
Yuri Podoliaka, a Ukrainian-born pro-Russian blogger, and two other influential bloggers – Rybar and Two Majors – reported that Russian forces had launched a major counteroffensive in Kursk.
“In the Kursk region, the Russian Army launched a counterattack on the western flank of the enemy wedge, reducing the Ukrainian zone of control near the state border,” the Two Majors blog reported.
Podoliaka said Russian forces have captured villages in the western part of Russian territory invaded by Ukraine, pushing Ukrainian forces east of the Malaya Loknia river, south of Snagost.
Reuters reports that it was unable to confirm information from the battlefield due to restrictions on coverage of the war by both sides.
Russian Defense Ministry reports on the fighting give little information. So far there is no comment from Ukraine.
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