As Russian troops advance across the eastern front range and profit from Kyiv’s exhausted government, which is frantically awaiting the arrival of new U.S. support, Russian forces have made a military retreat from three more villages.
Ukraine’s commander in chief, Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, said in a Telegram article Sunday that the” position at the front has worsened” and described some of the toughest fighting north of Avdiivka, the area that fell to Russian troops in February. In that direction, Russian forces withdrew from the settlements of Berdychi, Semenivka and Novomykhailivka.
The army concentrated its major efforts in various directions, giving the enemy a significant advantage in forces and means, according to Syrskyi,” trying to seize the proper effort and crack through the front line.”
The best Ukrainian chief claimed that Russia has deployed four divisions, each with a few thousand soldiers and is moving toward the cities of Kurakhovo and Pokrovsk, which are located west of Avdiivka in the eastern Donetsk area.
The visit to flee from Berdychi, Semenivka and Novomykhailivka was made to preserve” the lives and health of our soldiers” Syrskyi said.
” In general, the army achieved specific military successes in these guidelines, but could not get operating advantages”, he wrote. Ukraine’s troops cause the army the greatest losses, both in terms of staff and military equipment. The regiments that have regained fight ability are being moved in order to improve the protection in these directions and to change the units that have lost.
The Institute for the Study of War ( ISW) also reported that Ukrainian troops withdrew west of Avdiivka, but claimed that the retreat did not “facilitate rapid Russian tactical gains.”
The ISW noted that” Russian forces are unlikely to achieve a more technically major penetration in the area in the near future,” but” Russian forces will probably continue to make defensive gains in the Avdiivka direction in the foreseeable future, and Ukrainian commanders may decide to make more withdrawals if Russian forces threaten other Ukrainian tactical positions in the area.”
Russian military blogger Rybar claimed that Moscow was making significant advances west of Avdiivka, claiming that” troops have been systematically building on their success” moving past the fallen city and toward a number of cities and towns.
The majority of the eastern Luhansk region is under Russian control, and it is also under Russian control of the neighboring Kharkiv region, Kupiansk.
Russia is also attempting to advance to the larger cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, two long-held goals that, if implemented, would give Russia much greater control over the Donetsk region, according to Syrskyi.
Ukrainian troops are fighting a heated battle in the city of Chasiv Yar toward Kramatorsk and have blocked Russian advances toward Siversk on the way to Sloviansk, according to Syrskyi.
Kyiv has been relying on its backs for months while Washington is awaiting more assistance. It will still take days for desperately needed weapons to arrive on the battlefield, even though that package was finally approved last week and the Pentagon announced additional assistance was on the way.
Russia has been pursuing more aggressively this spring, in part because of the delay in U.S. aid to Ukrainian defenders and because of May 9, a significant day for Russians to commemorate their victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.
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