War in Ukraine: Russia steps up pressure on Luhansk, maintaining siege of Bakhmut

Russia is stepping up its pressure on the Kupyansk front in the Ukrainian-annexed Lugansk region to retake control and continue its advance on Kharkiv, one of the cities hardest hit in the war with Ukraine, without reducing the intensity of fighting in Bakhmut. in the north of Donetsk.

“The enemy maintained a significant military presence in Kupyansk and Liman in order to prevent the advance of our units in other directions,” the Ukrainian military command said in a combat report.

Pressure on Kupinask

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine added that Russian troops launched an artillery strike on 13 settlements on the front line in this area, which recaptured Ukraine during its counter-offensive last September, which dealt a severe morale blow Russia.

The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) confirmed that “Russian troops continued offensive operations northeast of Kupyansk.”

An attack on Kupyansk and Izyum would once again open up the opportunity for Russian troops to attack from the north the main strongholds of Ukrainian troops in the Donbass – Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, and would also increase the threat to Kharkov, the second most important city in the Donbass. Ukraine.

Kharkov attacks

The president UkraineVolodymyr Zelenskyy said that “since the beginning of this year alone, in less than two and a half months, more than forty enemy missiles have already hit Kharkiv.”

The President of Ukraine stated that Russia”an evil state” uses a variety of weapons – “rockets and artillery, drones and mortars” – with the sole purpose of “destroying life and leaving nothing human.”

Zelenskiy denounced that Russian bombing ended this Saturday with the lives of three people in Kherson (south) “who just went to the store to buy groceries.”

Russia He became, in his opinion, “a synonym for terror” and “will be an example of the defeat and just punishment of this terror.”

Fighting continues in Bakhmut

Meanwhile, Ukrainian defenders continue to hold back the Russian army in the Donbass (east of Ukraine), where 92 shellings were repulsed over the past 24 hours, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.

The enemy did not stop attacking the city of bahmut (…) In total, 15 settlements were damaged as a result of shelling by the invaders,” the Ukrainian military command said.

For its part, a group of Russian mercenaries Wagner, who stood in the vanguard of Russian troops in the east Ukrainetoday took advantageous positions in the industrial zone of the AZOM metallurgical plant in the city of bahmutaccording to Andriy Marochko, a representative of the authorities imposed Russia in Lugansk.

“In the city of Artemovsk (Russian name bahmut) assault groups took advantageous positions in the industrial zone of the AZOM metalworking plant, he told the Russian TASS agency.

According to Marochko, these positions allow the Russian troops “to control the movements of the enemy, and also create a good springboard for the further advance of our troops.”

The day before, the head of a group of Russian Wagnerites, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that these forces had approached a little more than a kilometer from the administrative center of the city.

The assault on AZOM, as Russian military bloggers and ISW warned, could lead to heavy losses in the ranks of the Wagnerites, since this is a huge area with a high density of objects and a network of underground passages of dozens of floors. metro.

Wagner’s boss Yevgeny Prigozhin today did not report on the progress in his Telegram channel and, on the contrary, denied the information that the city of Oreevo-Vasilyevka to the north-west of bahmutwas under Russian control, which would mean that the Russian loop is closing.

“With the statements of some media, “public opposition leaders” and experts, they only warn our enemy about the nature of our movements. That is why I am asking our media not to put the cart before the oxen. Happiness loves silence,” he sentenced.

Revival in Avdiivka

Further south, fighting intensifies around Avdiivka, an important Ukrainian stronghold just over 20km north of the regional capital of Donetsk, and also to the east Ukraine.

Former spokesman for the pro-Russian militias, Eduard Basurin, said today that the troops Russia they are going to take control of the city of Krasnohorivka, trying to delay the siege of Avdiivka.

Krasnohorivka is located north of Avdiivka, which means that Russian troops are gradually beginning to encircle this important square for Ukraine.

“The city is practically liberated, a sweep is being carried out on the outskirts” of parts UkraineThis was reported to TASS by a retired colonel.

According to Basurin, “the complete liberation of Krasnogorovka will allow Russian troops to tighten their grip around Avdiivka.”

Pro-Russian forces denounce the fact that Ukrainian troops are shelling Donetsk and other neighboring cities from Avdiivka, a walled city north of the regional capital, that the forces Russia they have been trying to take him almost from the beginning of the campaign.

(As reported by EFE)

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