O Kremlin also reported advances on Dimitrovwhere Russian military forces reportedly control the southern part of the city, and in the southern part of the front line, where they are said to have reached the Gaichur River.
Russia claimed, on Monday, to have captured the city of Pokrovsk (Donetsk), in Eastern Ukraine, an important logistical center for Ukrainian forces, as well as Vovchansk (Kharkiv), in the northeast, with Vladimir Putin praising the Russian Armed Forces.
“As for the Central and Eastern groups, here, along the entire line of combat contact, the initiative is entirely in the hands of our Armed Forces,” said Russian President Vladimir Putin, quoted by the Russian news agency TASS, during his visit to the military command of the troops fighting in Ukraine.
Putin specifically referred to the “pace of advance” of the Vostok group, which is approaching the city of Huliaipole.
“The Chief of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, informed Vladimir Putin about the liberation of the cities of Krasnoarmeysk (Russian name for Pokrovsk) and Vovchansk,” declared the Kremlin (Russian presidency) on the social network Telegram.
According to the Kremlin, this report was delivered to the Russian President on Sunday nightbut the information was only released this Monday.
O Kremlin also reported advances on Dimitrovwhere Russian military forces reportedly control the southern part of the city, and in the southern part of the front line, where they are said to have reached the Gaichur River.
Putin, wearing a military uniform during the visit, thanked the military for capturing the cities and emphasized the importance of this sector of the Ukrainian front.
This “will allow the resolution of all the main missions defined from the beginning, when we began the special military operation”, he stated.
The situation in the different sectors of the battlefront
In addition, other high-ranking generals reported on the situation in different sectors of the Ukrainian front.
The commander of the Central Military Unit, Valeri Solodchuk, reported the annihilation of blocked enemy attacks on the cities of Pokrovsk and Mirnogradwith details of the capture of the area in the city.
Andréi Ivanáev, commander of the military group, commented on the situation in the Zaporijia and Dinpropetrovsk regions, where Russian troops attacked the Gaichur River and began the battle at Huliaipolean important Ukrainian fortress.
Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov described the capture of Vovchansk as “an important step towards victory and the achievement of Moscow’s objectives” in Ukraine.
This announcement comes in the midst of negotiations between Ukrainians and Americans about Washington’s plan to end the war, with one of the points of friction being the issue of territories occupied by Moscow.
US envoy Steve Witkoff will meet Putin in Moscow on Tuesday to continue discussions on Washington’s plan to end the war in Ukraine, started by Russia in February 2022.
