Vladimir Putin soldiers have changed the strategy trying to align the front line in two directions, according to a new report from the War Study Institute.
In the analysis, they ensure that the Russian army has managed to advance through the western border of Donetsk’s regions to the northwest of Kurakhove. Some images that were published on June 11.
According to the new report, they are likely that Russian troops try to move towards the regional border from at least two directions: the east, along the Novomykolaivka-Novoukrainka line; and From Velyka Novoselka, in the south.
On June 12, the authorities of Russia announced new advances in eastern Ukraine with the taking of two other locations in the province of Donetsk, epicenter of their operations in recent months, within the framework of the invasion unleashed in February 2022 by order of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
The Russian Defense Ministry indicated in a brief statement published in its account on the social network Telegram that “Units of the Centro Forces group released the towns of Petrovskoye and Alekseyevkain the People’s Republic of Donetsk “, without the Ukrainian government pronouncing about it.
For his part, Donetsk is, together with Lugansk, Jersón and Zaporiyia, one of the four partially occupied provinces and annexed by Moscow in October 2022, a measure that joined the annexation in 2014 of the Crimean Peninsula, actions not recognized to date by the international community.
The Kremlin has already justified on June 9 that the land offensive launched against the Ukrainian province of Dnipropetrovsk aims to create a plug area with Donetsk, partially occupied by the Russian troops in the framework of the invasion launched in February 2022 by order of the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin.
“Including that, of course“The Kremlin spokesman, Dimitri Peskov, said after a question about whether the objective of this new offensive is to create this area plug in DNIPROPROPETROVSK, according to the Russian News Agency TASS, just one day after Moscow announced that its infantry gave foot for the first time this province.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that a armored division had reached the western border of Donetsk and added that these forces had penetrated dnipropetrovsk, an immediately denied information by the Ukrainian General Staff, which recognized intense intense fighting in the border area between both provinces.
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