2023-07-18 03:29:06
The Ukrainian military reports intensive Russian attacks in the east of the country. The situation is difficult, said the commander of the army, Colonel General Olexander Syrskyj, on Monday. In the Kupyansk area in the Kharkiv region, the Russian army launched an offensive to break through the Ukrainian lines. Russia has been waging a war of aggression against the neighboring country for almost 17 months. A Ukrainian counter-offensive is currently underway.
The military information could not be independently verified. But the nightly situation report by the General Staff in Kiev also mentioned the front near Kupyansk as a focal point of the fighting. The Ukrainian troops withstood the attack, the report said. A press officer from the Ukrainian army spoke on television of an alleged 100,000 men that Russia had massed on the Kupyansk and Lyman front sectors.
The Russian army is also sending other forces, especially airborne troops, to the city of Bakhmut, General Syrskyj reported. Their mission is to stop the recapture of the places around Bakhmut by the Ukraine. The Ukrainian troops evacuated Bakhmut themselves after months of fighting. In their major offensive, however, they advance again north and south of the city.
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