Missile trails can be seen in the sky over the city following a Russian missile attack as Russia attacks Ukraine. Portal/Anna Voitenko
The armed forces of Russia today launched a combined attack with naval and air missiles, including Kinzhal hypersonic missilesand drones against Ukrainian military industry targets, the Russian Defense Ministry reported in its daily war report.
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According to the defense, the targets were “facilities for the production of 155-, 152- and 125-millimeter bullets, gunpowder and drones.”
“The aim of the attack was achieved. “All targets were hit.”the Russian military report added.
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This Saturday, Ukraine raised air alert after the launch of Russian Tu-95MS bombers in the Caspian Sea, which subsequently fired X-101/555/55 missiles, the Ukrainian Air Force reported on Telegram.
The Ukrainian side later reported rocket launches Kinzhal of fighters MiG-31Kwhich started from a base in the Russian region Nizhny Novgorod.
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Russia has concentrated attack troops in the east Ukrainewhere, according to Kiev, it is preparing a new offensive at a time when night temperatures have dropped to 10 degrees below zero, making it easier to deploy mechanized units.
“The operational situation in the east remains difficult. The enemy continues its offensive actions in the direction of Kupyansk, Liman and Bakhmut.”wrote the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, Oleksandr Sirski, on his Telegram channel.
He added that Russian troops are preparing an offensive towards the city of Siversk in the eastern Donetsk region and are forming strike groups for this purpose.
Ukrainian soldiers after a rocket attack by the Russian army on Zaporizhia. Europe Press/Contact/Dmytro Smolienko
According to experts from the American think tank War Studies Institute (ISW), low temperatures are likely to reduce operations on the front line, but may also create conditions conducive to the advance of heavy vehicles due to the hardening of the ground over several weeks.
In its latest report, the ISW emphasizes that the number of troops Russia maintains in the areas it controls in Ukraine – almost half a million, according to Ukrainian military intelligence – allows it to rotate personnel and increase the pace of its local offensives maintain the fronts. Oriental.
Last day, Russian troops directed the majority of their attacks against Ukrainian defense lines in the Donetsk region, where more than 40 men were repulsed, reported today General Staff of Ukraine.
The hottest area was once again the sector Avdivkanear the occupied capital of the Donetsk region, where Ukrainian troops have foiled a total of 27 Russian attacks, according to Kiev.
Ukraine also claims to have repelled 13 attacks on the Marinka axis in the Donetsk region.
Kiev gave up the initiative in the war in the fall after its ground counteroffensive in the summer failed to produce the expected results, and is now resisting Russia's advances along almost the entire front line.
“Despite large-scale offensive actions by the enemy, our soldiers hold the defensive lines in all directions and inflict significant losses on the enemy,” the Ukrainian military command emphasized.
(With information from EFE)