The Ukrainian army is still on the offensive: at the beginning of November it launched an attack once morest the Russian positions around the town of Kreminna, in the oblast of Luhansk (east of the country), in a new effort – unsuccessful so far. now – to cut off an important supply route.
The Ukrainian authorities recognize a slow progress, slowed by weather conditions, rain and mud. At the same time, special forces are trying to gain a foothold on the left bank of the Dnieper in the islands and marshes that make up the spit of Kinbourn, a strategic peninsula on the road to Crimea, annexed in 2014 by Russia.
The efforts of the Russian army in Ukraine are currently focused on taking the entire Donetsk region in the east, its chief of staff, Valery Gerasimov, announced on Thursday. According to him, the front line with the Ukrainian forces is currently 815 kilometers long.
On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted the situation was “extremely difficult” in the oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk, in the Donbass, as well as in the regions of Kherson and Zaporizhia, in southern Ukraine. These are four areas which Moscow claims to annex without having completely conquered them.
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