The Ukrainian armed forces are beneath heavy strain from Russian assaults within the east of the nation, President Volodymyr Zelensky stated on Friday in his nightly video handle to the nation.
The state of affairs round Pokrovsk within the Donetsk area particularly has been totally analysed by the army management, Zelensky stated.
“This area was and continues to be the focus of Russian attacks,” Zelensky stated. Everything have to be completed to strengthen Ukrainian defence positions within the area, he added.
The Ukrainian chief expressed “special appreciation” to all items that attacked Russian bases and logistics within the occupied territories, with out naming any particular items.
“The occupier must feel that this is Ukrainian land,” Zelensky stated.
Citing army sources in Kiev, Ukrainian media had beforehand reported a missile assault on a army airport in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014. No particulars had been initially offered concerning the affect of the assault.
The Russian Ministry of Defence has not commented on the assault.
Zelensky’s remarks got here after an official with Ukraine’s HUR army intelligence service stated earlier on Friday that Russian forces are prioritizing assaults across the Donbass area in jap Ukraine.
“This is where the fiercest fighting is currently taking place,” HUR’s Andriy Yusov stated on Ukrainian tv.
Fighting is happening on nearly all sections of the entrance across the coal-producing Donbass area, he stated.
“On all other sections, the enemy is carrying out mock attacks and diversionary manoeuvres,” he added.
Numerous feint assaults have been recorded, significantly within the area south of the town of Zaporizhzhya, he stated. In actuality, nonetheless, these had been attributable to regrouping and redeployment on the Russian aspect, based on Yusov.
Those operations should not with out hazard, particularly as Russia has stationed round 90,000 troops within the Zaporizhzhya area.
According to Ukrainian army specialists, this variety of troopers will not be adequate for a breakthrough on the entrance, however the Ukrainian military may actually be put beneath strain
Elsewhere in Ukraine, Russia as soon as once more struck power services with in a single day drone and missile assaults.
Energy provider Ukrenergo introduced on Facebook on Friday that services within the Zhytomyr and Chernihiv areas had been affected.
Energy provide to households and trade within the Zhytomyr space was quickly disrupted however largely restored by Friday morning. Repair work was ongoing, it stated.
According to the Ukrainian armed forces, Russia used 22 drones and not less than one Iskander-M missile for the assault.
Air-defence forces stated they intercepted 20 drones. However, either side repeatedly report excessive interception charges, regardless of frequent vital harm on the bottom.
Ukrainian media printed pictures of a strike within the metropolis of Kramatorsk within the Donetsk area. Authorities haven’t but offered info on the harm, and it’s unclear whether or not the strike was attributable to the reported Iskander missile.
Source: www.anews.com.tr