Russians and Ukrainians are fighting for “every meter” in the Donbass and are preparing offensives

Russian and Ukrainian troops are fighting for every inch of land in the Donbass, in a battle of attrition that results in many casualties on both sides, without abandoning plans to launch new military operations.

“The situation at the front, especially in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, remains extremely difficult. They are literally fighting for every meter of Ukrainian land,” the President of Ukraine said. Vladimir Zelenskyin your daily speech.

According to Zelensky, every day of resistance in “Bakhmut, Vuhledar, Marinka and other cities of Donbass reduces the time of Russian aggression by weeks.”

Moreover, resistance is of key importance, as it implies “unprecedented destruction of Russian potential.”

This was stated by British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace. Russia would do Ukraine 97% of his army.

Stopping the Russians before the counteroffensive

Zelenskiy also assured that Kyiv is doing “everything possible” to ensure that its troops have more weapons for the offensive they are preparing.

In this sense, his Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov assured that Ukraine he still needs a few more months to prepare a counterattack.

“We are talking about several months, during which we will be fully prepared. And then, according to the decisions of the General Staff, certain steps will be taken,” he told the Ukrinform agency.

As for the weapons it calls for UkraineThe head of the Ministry of Defense said that “when there is a war, something is always missing.”

“But we cannot say that the situation is critical and we do not have (ammunition) to stop the advance (of the enemy),” he said.

In this sense, he repeated that Ukraine she is ready to stop the Russians, but the more weapons she has, the “better”.

Reznikov remains

Reznikov also announced today that he will not step down from his post, despite rumors that Kirill Budanov, head of military intelligence, will soon replace him.

“It was my president’s decision,” Reznikov said in statements collected by Guardian.

The head of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry was in a difficult position for about two weeks due to a corruption scandal in his portfolio, for which several high-ranking officials were fired.

bahmut resists

It is the fierce Ukrainian resistance at the Bakhmut bastion in Donetsk that is allowing Kyiv to wear down Russian forces in the face of a declared counteroffensive, according to the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW).

“The Ukrainian defense of Bakhmut has significantly depleted Russian forces and is likely to create favorable conditions for a future Ukrainian counteroffensive,” the ISW daily report says.

According to the analysts of the center, in the event of the capture of Bakhmut without much resistance, the Russian troops could deploy their actions in such a way that they would force Ukraine hastily build new fortifications on “less favorable ground”.

Thus, according to ISW, the defense of the city, which Kiev would be advised to abandon by its Western partners, and the preparation of a counteroffensive are “probably complementary activities” and not self-exclusive, the ISW concludes. .

Kyiv denies Russian advance

Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry assured today that they continue the offensive in Donbass and leads to numerous losses of the enemy.

Moscow has previously claimed that one of its offensives drove Ukrainian soldiers three kilometers into a wooded area in the Luhansk region.

“Ukrainian fighters left their positions in a hurry, without taking their equipment and their dead,” the Russian side said.

Kyiv, for its part, denies the nomination Russia and assures that he repulsed the attacks of the enemy in about twenty cities.

“During the last 24 hours, units of the Armed Forces Ukraine repulsed the attacks of the invaders in the Nevsky, Kremensky and Belogorovsky districts of the Lugansk region, the Ukrainian military reported.

One day, Ukraine denies that the Russians have taken control of the city of Krasnaya Gora, located between the cities of Bakhmut and Soledar, as claimed by Russian forces.

Military bloggers Russia For their part, they reported the continuation of bloody fighting in the cities of Ugledar and Maryinka, as in the Donetsk region, where Russian and Ukrainian troops are fighting within the city.

Russian analysts believe that the mention of repulsed attacks on the village of Pobeda in the last Ukrainian part indirectly confirms the Russian offensive, since the aforementioned village lies on the road between Ugledar and Maryinka and its capture would give an advantage to Moscow troops.

(As reported by EFE)

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