Russian authorities reported Monday that Kyiv’s government made a fresh force against the Kremlin’s troops to overthrow a night-battle of 39 Ukrainian drones over five of the nation’s areas.
Russia’s defence ministry said the drones were “intercepted and destroyed” in regions bordering Ukraine as well as in the Leningrad region roughly 700 kilometers ( 430 miles ) north of the Ukrainian border. A power plant, a gate and a power range were damaged by drone dust, it said.
In an effort to make the battle that is now in its third year more expensive for Moscow and hampered its war machine, Ukraine has used high technology in its extremely optimistic drone strikes deep in Russia to target important infrastructure.
Russian soldiers, however, are intensifying their weekslong push to breach Russian defenses around Pokrovsk, a area of around 60, 000 persons before the war, the Ukrainian General Staff said Monday.
According to the report, Russia carried out 52 attacks there over the past 24 hours, nearly twice the normal figure in subsequent weeks.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy later Sunday described the situation in the Donetsk area, which includes Pokrovsk, as “extremely challenging”.
The Kremlin is pursuing a significant breakthrough that has n’t been possible for it since it captured Avdiivka in February thanks to Russia’s attritional warfare strategy, which uses powerful glide bombs to pulverize Ukrainian defensive positions before infantry move in.
Ukraine is significantly outgunned by Russia’s bigger army on the roughly 1, 000-kilometer (600-mile ) front line.
