In conjunction with Moscow intensifying its strikes on eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that Donetsk region Witness the fiercest battles.
He made it clear in a video speech on Sunday night that Russian forces bombed Ukrainian positions on the front lines with artillery, pointing out that the eastern region alone was subjected to nearly 400 strikes yesterday, Sunday.
He added that “the fiercest fighting, as before, is taking place in the Donetsk region.” And he added, “Although there were fewer attacks on Sunday due to bad weather, the volume of Russian bombing is unfortunately still very high.”
Slow moving in Lugansk
As for the Lugansk region, he explained that the Ukrainian forces are slowly moving forward during the fighting, according to Archyde.com.
Regarding the situation in the south, he indicated that his country’s forces are “steadily and calculatedly destroying the capabilities of the occupiers,” but he did not give details.
Donbass (Shutterstock)
Recall that Russia had withdrawn its troops from Southern city of Kherson This month, it moved some of them to reinforce its positions in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Lugansk, in an industrial area known as Donbass, which was a heavy blow to its forces and a painful setback, especially since the city has strategic and “moral” importance as well.
It is the first major Ukrainian city to fall into his hands since the outbreak of the conflict on February 24.
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It also formed with Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhia, the four regions that the Kremlin announced late last September to annex.
Also, its geographical location is of particular importance, as the region is located on the borders of the Dnipro, Petrovsk and Nikolaev regions, and has land borders with Crimea in the south, while it overlooks the Black Sea in the southwest, and in the southeast the Sea of Azov.
