The advances of Russia, which in January captured less territory than in each of the previous months of the last half year, have slowed down a little due to the hard resistance of Ukraine, although the pressure remains high along the front line .
The Russian Armed Forces took two Ukrainian locations in the regions of Járkov and Donetsk, as reported on Wednesday the Russian Defense Ministry in their part of the daily war.
“The units of the Zapad Military Group (West) released the town of Novomlinsk from the Járkov region,” Russian command has an unknown in Telegram. In addition, the troops of the Military Group Centro took the town of Baranivka in Donetsk, said Defense.
Novomlinsk is a small town located on the shores of the Oskol River, less than 20 kilometers north of the city of Kupiansk, taken by Russia at the beginning of the war and recovered by Ukraine in September 2022.
In turn, Baránivka is located about 24 kilometers east of Pokrovsk’s bastion, an important logistics knot in Donbás, which Russia tries to conquer for months. The new conquest thus adds to other locations taken by the Russian forces in recent weeks in that area with the aim of fence Pokrovsk, where some 60,000 people lived before the war.
The Russian offensive in that area threatens the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the cut The supply line of the Ukrainian towns of Donbás, which makes Pokrovsk a key city.
In this way, Russia is reinforcing its advantage in the front line. According to the War Studies Institute, only in January conquered 430 km2, that is, a surface similar to four times the size of the city of Barcelona, as highlighted by the media .
The Russian army advances in this way in the great battle for the control of the heart of Donbás before the beginning of the negotiations between the Kremlin and the new president of the United States, Donald Trump, who presses Moscow with sanctions if he does not agree to end The war.
