Russia stated on Monday that his forces had achieved important advances in eastern Ukraine, while continuing to reject a new offensive inside the Kursk region of western Russia, where a second day of intense fighting. The Russian Defense Ministry declared that its forces had captured the city of Kurájove32 kilometers south of Pokrovsk, a Ukrainian logistics center towards which Russian forces have been advancing for months. The Ministry declared that the capture of Kurákhove, which had held out for many weeks, would allow Moscow’s forces speed up the pace of his progress in ukrainian region de Donetsk.
Viktor Trehubovspokesman for the Ukrainian forces group Jortytsiahas assured Reuters that, on Monday morning, kyiv forces they continued to face each other to the Russian troops inside Kurájove. The Ukrainian observation group DeepState, which tracks the front line using open sources, showed that the majority of the population was under Russian control. Both sides are fighting to improve your positions on the battlefield before Donald Trumpwho has promised to quickly end the war almost three yearstake office as president of the United States on January 20. Ukraine’s main achievement in the past five months of fighting has been capturing and holding territory within Russia’s Kursk region that could prove a bargaining chip in potential peace talks.
Ukraine has not revealed details of the new offensive which launched in Kursk on Sunday, although a senior Ukrainian official He said Russia was “getting what it deserves.” The Russian Defense Ministry said the Ukrainian advance had been thwarted and the main force had been destroyed near the settlement of Berdin, near a road that goes northeast, towards the city of Kursk. A senior Russian commander said a new attack. «We are registering a concentration of enemy teams in another direction and, naturally, we understand that they will try to attack in this direction. At this moment I am not going to say where» said Major General Apti Alaudinov, commander of a Chechen unit fighting for Russia in Kursk.
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The independent military analyst Franz-Stefan Gady He said Ukraine was trying to hold on to its Kursk pocket for as long as possible, even as Russia continued to push deeper into eastern Ukraine. “There is a probability that we have not seen the main thrust of this Ukrainian offensive operation yet,” he told Reuters. “In essence, we are talking about platoon- and company-sized assaults, with fairly limited progress so far,” added Gady, who added that it remains to be seen if kyiv’s forces can open another axis of advance.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday that more than 1,000 North Korean soldiers had been killed or wounded. Reuters does not have accessor to the Kursk war zone and cannot verify the casualty figures. In reaction to the new Ukrainian offensive, the United States, Great Britain and the European Union reaffirmed their support for kyiv. «Ukraine has the right to defend itself and, according to international lawthis right extends beyond its borders», EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told Reuters. «Moscow’s illegal war against Ukraine has included numerous Russian attacks originated in the Kursk region.
“Therefore, Russian military forces are legitimate targets under international law,” said a State Department spokesperson American: “We are committed to putting Ukraine in the strongest possible position on the battlefield, including increasing security assistance and utilizing all available resources authorized by Congress,” he continued. Britain said it would support Ukraine for “as long as be necessary”.
