On Sunday, the Russian military operation in Ukraine entered its 82nd day, as the Russian forces continue to destroy the sites of the Ukrainian military infrastructure and liberate the Donbass lands, while Western powers continue to supply Kyiv with weapons.
In the latest development, a large convoy of cars and vans carrying refugees arrived from the ruins of the city of Mariupol to the Ukrainian-controlled city of Zaporizhia following waiting days before Russian forces allowed it to leave.
Ukraine has been gradually evacuating civilians from the devastated city for more than two months. Russia controls most of the city.
An aide to the mayor of Mariupol had said earlier that the convoy included between 500 and 1,000 vehicles, which represented the largest single evacuation from the city since the start of the Russian military operation on February 24.
And while Moscow refocuses its attack on eastern Ukraine, especially following Kyiv’s resistance to the advance of Russian forcesOn Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared that the situation in the Donbass region remains extremely difficult.
The president added that the Russian forces are still trying to show a victory of some kind, as he put it.
Zelensky also continued in a speech during a video clip late at night, that on the 80th day of the military operation there is Russian anger over what is happening, especially with the cohesion of the Ukrainian forces, but they (that is, the Russians) do not stop their attempts, according to what was reported by “Archyde.com”. regarding the president.
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The president’s speech came following a video recording of the Ukrainian army showed, hours ago, that the Ukrainian forces destroyed several vehicles of a Russian armored column as it tried to cross a river in the Donbass region.
While the second stage of the Russian military operation launched on Ukrainian territory does not seem to be going according to the previously set schedule.
After the Russian army focused its capabilities on eastern Ukraine with the aim of liberating the Donbass region, as he put it, it does not seem to achieve what was expected in this region, which witnessed several years of clashes and unrest, according to what a number of experts said.
Moscow has concentrated 80% of its forces in the east since last March, compared to 20% before that, and has managed to redeploy a large number of armored vehicles and adapt some of the tactics of the Ukrainians.
However, despite this, Russia is facing failures in the Donbass, especially following Ukraine recently succeeded in thwarting Moscow’s attempt to cross the river to the region, which led to the destruction of dozens of vehicles and heavy losses.
Russian gains?
It is noteworthy that Russia had announced last February 24 the launch of a military operation on the lands of its western neighbor, which it described at the time as a blitzkrieg, but the winds on the ground took place contrary to the desires of the Russian ships. It lasts months following.
Regardless of the gains that Russia can obtain, it has lost a lot, according to many observers, as it was forced to review its basic objectives to reduce them, and was unable to use its navy, but rather lost ships, most notably the flagship “Moskva” of the Black Sea Fleet, and it failed to control the Ukrainian airspace and suffered setbacks on the ground.
