In the film, an old Kalashnikov and another sniper rifle, a Ukrainian soldier inside the small trench, who fires first from one side, then from the other slit, against the Russians.The heaviest fighting is taking place in eastern Ukraine, in the Donetsk region, with Russian forces trying to push forward. “In Bakhmut’s direction, the enemy will continue to concentrate its main efforts on conducting offensive operations,” said the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to Kiev, Moscow is seeking further progress and have bombed several towns, including Bakhmut and nearby Soledar, with mercenaries from Russia’s private military corporation Wagner – which includes pardoned convicts – at the forefront, and Opytne.
And Bakhmut, a key city in eastern Ukraine, has descended into trench warfare reminiscent of World War I, with hundreds killed and wounded reported daily, as neither Russian nor Ukrainian forces have been able to make a breakthrough there. significant after months of fighting. Like other settlements, it is largely abandoned since the incessant Russian bombing, almost all the buildings are in rubble.
Yesterday in the bulletin of the Ukrainian General Staff, units of the Defense Forces repulsed “the attacks of the Russian invaders in the areas of Novoselivske, Stelmakhivka and Bilogorivka settlements in Lugansk oblast and Bilohorivka, Yakovlivka, Bakhmut, Kurdyumivka, Krasnohorivka, Kamian ka , Vodiane, Pervomaiske and Maryinka in Donetsk Oblast”.
But Vladimir Putin’s troops continue to press. To prevent the advance of Ukrainian soldiers towards Svatove and Lyman, the Tsar’s troops – according to Kiev – are allegedly equipping and supporting new units and those who have suffered losses.
“Towards Kherson, the enemy is defending the previously occupied lines” the general staff in Kiev said. “Areas with settlements located on the right bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson Oblast have come under artillery and tank shelling. The enemy does not stop shelling the suburbs and the city of Kherson itself.”
The Russians also allegedly targeted the settlements of Seredyna Buda, Bachivsk, Bilopylla, Budky and Krasnopilla in Sumy Oblast with artillery.
