Kyiv, January 10 (EFE). – In the last 24 hours, Ukrainian armed forces repelled almost seventy Russian attacks in seven different areas of the front, the Kiev General Staff reported today in its daily war report.
According to the Ukrainian Center for Defense Strategies, a think tank that tracks the course of the war, Russian troops managed to advance northwest of the occupied town of Bakhmut in the eastern Donetsk province and near the town of Tokmak on the Zaporizhzhia Front (south).
In the Avdivka axis, near the occupied capital of the Donetsk region, Russian forces managed to penetrate between 300 meters and a kilometer into territory previously controlled by Ukraine in two different directions, according to this center.
Hostilities also continue in the northeastern province of Kharkiv. According to the Institute for the Study of War, a private American institution that analyzes the conflict on a daily basis, Russia lacks the potential to conquer this region and is trying to create a buffer zone there between territory controlled by Kiev and the Russian border province of Belgorod. .
This Russian territory has been the target of persistent Ukrainian attacks in recent days, killing 25 people on December 30.
This Ukrainian attack would have been in response to the massive Russian bombing of Ukraine the day before, in which Russia fired a record number of missiles since the start of the war, killing more than fifty people across the country.
According to the Kiev General Staff, Russia is concentrating its troops along the border with Ukraine in Belgorod and has increased the density of minefields in the area to prevent new Ukrainian ground attacks.
This fall, Russia regained the initiative on the front lines after the counteroffensive launched by Ukraine on June 5 stalled without achieving its objectives. Despite massive casualties and material losses, Russian forces maintain their numerical superiority in artillery systems, ammunition and drones to put Ukraine on the defensive.
A Ukrainian army soldier who recently returned from the Slovyansk front in the north of the eastern Donetsk region described on Tuesday the situation in that region as “complicated” for Ukraine. “The Russians are putting pressure on us,” the soldier said, referring to the Russian forces’ numerical superiority in drones.
The poor weather conditions and mud that have formed in this part of the front have slowed Russian operations in recent weeks, the soldier added. EFE
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