Published February 22,2024
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The Russian Defence Ministry mentioned its forces have captured a small village within the Donetsk area in jap Ukraine, as Moscow’s forces construct on their progress within the space.
The ministry, writing on Telegram on Thursday, mentioned Russian forces had been now accountable for Pobeda, about 20 kilometres south-west of the regional capital Donetsk.
Ukrainian army bloggers additionally reported on the Russian advance on Pobeda, which earlier than the warfare had a inhabitants of only some dozen individuals.
Ukraine has been heading off a Russian invasion for nearly two years. After a failed counter-offensive final summer season, the battlefield momentum has swung to the Russian facet. Moscow controls virtually 20% of Ukraine’s territory, together with the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which it annexed again in 2014.
Earlier, Ukrainian missile strikes killed as much as 60 Russian troopers as they carried out coaching workouts in a Russian-occupied space of the Kherson area, a Ukrainian army spokeswoman mentioned.
Natalia Gumenyuk, a spokeswoman for the Southern Command, instructed Kiev metropolis tv that “up to 60 occupiers” had been “unable to return to their fighting positions.”
She added that strikes had hit throughout workouts by Russian army assault teams within the southern Ukrainian area.
Gumenyuk wouldn’t touch upon the weapon system used.
The BBC’s Russian Service, citing sources conversant in scenario, reported on Wednesday that over 60 troopers had been killed on Tuesday. But it reported the incident occurred on a coaching floor within the occupied a part of the jap Donetsk area, somewhat than within the south. The sources mentioned the missiles had been fired from a US-made HIMARS launch system.
Ukraine has been heading off a Russian invasion for nearly two years with Western assist, together with the superior HIMARS rocket launchers.
Kaynak: DPA
Source: www.anews.com.tr