AGI For the past few days, Russian forces have been involved in one Pincer maneuver aimed at hitting Ukrainian defenses in Donbass from two directionswhere the evacuation of civilians is organized before the situation worsens.
After analyzing the military situation, a double offensive is under way from Izyum it goes southeast (Sloviansk) and southwest (Barvinkove).
The Ukrainian General Staff wrote that the Russians were quickly rebuilding a destroyed bridge at Izyum to facilitate the flow of troops south, that the Russian army had advanced seven kilometers and taken control of the village of Brazhkivka.
The strategy of Russia on the 42nd day since the start of the invasion of Ukraine is therefore confirmed as being focused on the East: The goal is to gain complete control over the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in the next period.
Thousands of people are trying to flee the planned Russian offensive: five humanitarian corridors have been created to remove as many civilians as possible from the front line.
The attack on the strategic port of Mariupol also continues, where the approximately 160,000 residents who have not left the city on the Azov Sea are now meeting their end.
According to local authorities, a tank farm north of Dnipro, the industrial city on the Dnieper, was bombed and destroyed during the night: It served to supply the city and was not a military target, they said. “The invaders are inflicting fire damage on defensive structures, logistical infrastructure and residential areas of the cities, according to the Bulletin of the Ukrainian General Staff.”
Finally, the Ukrainian military does not exclude the use of the territory of Transnistria to support operations towards Ukraine.
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The Russian offensive against Izyum, a town on the Donetsk River in Kharkov province, continues: it reports the movement of forces from the capital Kyiv and Sumy, which are respectively 600 km west and 300 km north of Izyum and 200 km from Lugansk removed.
The next target in a “pincer” encirclement strategy is the cities of Sloviansk and Barvinkove in the same area. According to the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW), operations towards Sloviansk continue, but on a small scale and with limited progress, while Russia has attacked the positions of the Ukrainian Army and the Ukrainian Army, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces civil infrastructure in Borivske, Novoluhanske, Solodke, Marinka and Zolota Nyva. Vigorous defense by the Ukrainian armed forces continues in Mariupol, the Kyiv General Staff stressed.
British intelligence this morning dedicated its update to the port on the Sea of Azov, recalling that the approximately 160,000 civilians still living in the city suffer from persistent lack of electricity, water, medicine and heating.
According to London, “Russian troops have blocked the access of humanitarian aid, probably to put pressure on the occupied and induce them to surrender”.
Meanwhile, last night an oil depot near Dnipro, an industrial city of 1 million people north of Zaporizhia in eastern Ukraine, was bombed and destroyed by Russian forces.
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The General Staff of the Ukrainian Army notes that the Russians are trying to improve the tactical situation towards the Pivdennyi Bug, the river towards Moldova. The Ukrainian military does not rule out using the territory of the selfproclaimed Moldovan Republic of Transnistria to support offensive operations.
Tiraspol airfield will be equipped to receive Russian military aircraft, Kyiv says. Nord According to the head of the military administration of Hostomel, more than 400 civilians died in the area of the capital Kyiv during the 35 days of occupation.
The Russians have abandoned the attack on Kyiv in order to “deploy some of the forces withdrawn from Belarus to Russia,” according to ISW.
According to the same American institute, it is likely that the units withdrawn from Kyiv will not be operational again in the short term.
All troops located west of the capital withdrew to Belarus, according to the French Ministry of Defense.
The second largest city in Ukraine, Kharkiv, was also heavily bombed overnight.
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Since yesterday and during the night there have been explosions in the city of Radekhiv, 70 kilometers from Lviv, which, due to its distance from the front and proximity to the Polish border, has become a target of diplomatic personnel since the beginning of the conflict fleeing from Kyiv as well Base of many journalists who came to Ukraine from all over the world for their war reports.