Fireworks in Moscow, commemorating the city’s 875th anniversary, opened fire on Russian soldiers in northeastern Ukraine, where a quick-order list of liberated areas is impossible, but in the south of the country, in the Kherson region. Vladimir Putin, who instructed his troops to occupy the entire Donetsk region by the 15th and said Russia had “lost nothing” more than thousands of dead in the meantime, had no reason to celebrate but faced criticism from local authorities in the capital and St Petersburg.
Oleksiy Reznikov, Ukraine’s defense minister, said the Russian military was running out of options in the theater of war. “Russian troops will flee, they will believe me, because we are destroying their logistics chains, warehouses, etc. And the question will be: “Where should they go? It will be like an avalanche”, he sentenced.
The Russian armed forces face their worst moment in the first days of the invasion, when reports of difficulty in supplying reinforcements and ammunition to the arsenals pile up. In the south, thousands of troops (estimated at 15,000 to 25,000) remain stranded on the west bank of the Dnieper as the Ukrainians continue to blow up their infrastructure and logistics.
To the northeast, Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, continues to be a daily target of Russian bombing, and the Ukrainian military launched an offensive of the same name that stunned many observers and warned of such rapid weakness. In advance.. In the last few hours, after Balaklia, he saw the Russian flag removed from Kubiansk and Isium, a strategic city and town connecting Donbass by rail.
The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed the withdrawal of its forces from Izium, which was occupied six months ago, saying the withdrawal was planned with the aim of strengthening the Donetsk region. Later in the day there were unconfirmed reports of clashes at Donetsk airport and a Ukrainian advance on Lisysansk in Luhansk.
Mick Ryan, an Australian researcher at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, commented on Twitter that “future historians will see this as an important turning point. The Russians are at a disadvantage.” Rob Lee, said The New York Times which Appears to be “a highly effective combined operation with tanks, mechanized infantry, special operations forces, air defense, artillery and other formations”.
Perhaps not coincidentally, in recent days, mayors of Smolensk in St. Petersburg have called for Putin to be charged with treason, and others of Lomonosovsky in Moscow have called for his resignation.
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