Ukrainian Resistance Complicates Vladimir Putin’s War Anniversary

Ukraine’s fierce resistance is even further from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s goal of showing some victory in the east of Donbass in his State of the Union address on Tuesday, in which he will assess the course of the war after a year of fighting in the neighboring region. a country.

“Everyone is waiting for an assessment of the ongoing events, the special operation, the international situation and the president’s opinion on how we are coping with all this and how we will develop,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. said today.

The President’s speech to both Houses of Parliament, the first in nearly two years, will coincide with a year-old Vladimir Putin recognized the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk, which was a prelude to the military campaign, which he will order to begin in three days “to liberate Donbass.”

Russian forces control about 90% of Luhansk and less than half of Donetsk, but still Russia She annexed these two regions along with the southern Zaporozhye and Kherson regions in September last year, in which she also does not control the entire territory.

Baymouth, unreached goal

According to Ukrainian intelligence, Russian troops were ordered to capture at least the Bakhmut stronghold in the Donetsk region before the performance. Vladimir Putin.

The mercenaries of the Wagner group, supported by Russian regular troops, are advancing on this front, but only a few meters a day.

Wagner’s chief Yevgeny Prigozhin admitted that Bakhmut could not be taken until March or April.

Interim leader appointed Russia in the Donetsk region, Denis Pushilin assured the day before that Russian troops had improved their positions near Bakhmut, although he acknowledged that moving forward in the face of Ukrainian resistance was very difficult.

Shakhtyorsk Mayor Alexander Shatov told the official TASS news agency this Sunday that Russian troops were evacuating citizens from the suburbs of Bakhmut under their control, indicative of heavy fighting going on around the city.

Deputy Prime Minister UkraineIrina Vereshchuk confirmed on Friday that fighting was going on in the city and artillery was hitting residential areas, in connection with which she called on 6,000 civilians who still remain in Bakhmut (out of 70,000 before the war) to immediately leave the city.

The immediate goal of the Wagner mercenaries is to block the Chasov Yar road and thus cut off the supply of the Kyiv troops, which will bring them closer to the goal of creating a fence around the city, considered as a springboard to reach the Ukrainian strongholds of Slavyansk. and Kramatorsk.

This is Ukrainian resistance – these are Russian forces in Ugledar and Maryinka, not far from the city of Donetsk, the regional center of the same name, taken Russia in 2014.

Ukraine is making a plan

Despite the advice of some Western countries that it is better to abandon the defense of Bakhmut, President UkraineVolodymyr Zelensky assures that he will never voluntarily leave this fortress, because if troops are withdrawn from there, Donetsk risks falling apart like a house of cards.

The President also stressed last night that the defense of the province is critical to “what we are preparing for the near future.”

Western analysts believe that Ukraine it is preparing a new offensive for the end of spring or summer, when it will already receive a good part of the heavy weapons promised by the West: armored vehicles, tanks and a certain number of long-range missiles.

This was stated by French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu. Parisian which your country will start sending to Ukraine Light tanks AMX-10 by the end of next week. Almost two weeks ago, the first of four Leopard 2 tanks donated by Canada to Canada Ukraine.

Fighting rages in Luhansk

At the front in the neighboring Lugansk region, the situation is as difficult as in Donetsk.

According to Kremlin-appointed interim leader Leonid Pasechnik, “the situation in Kremennaya and Svatovo is very difficult due to the proximity of the line of contact and the fact that all types of ammunition from outside (Armed Forces Ukraine) can reach us.”

The legitimate governor of Lugansk Sergei Gaidai today, for his part, confirmed that “in the direction of Kremennaya, the Russians are trying to break through our defenses.”

He also stressed that the Kremlin forces are “preparing to intensify the offensive.”

“The accumulation of equipment is large, and the number of soldiers is increasing,” he warned.

(As reported by EFE)

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