Within 24 hours, attacks were repulsed in eight places in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, destroying several Russian tanks and an artillery system, the general report said. Ukraine has particularly strong troops there, which have held the front line against the breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, controlled and equipped by Moscow, since 2014.
Russian troops apparently increased
At the same time, Moscow has been increasing its troops in the area for several days. The Ukrainian general staff announced on Thursday that elements of Russian troops previously sent to the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv were now stationed around the large city of Sievarodonetsk, which borders Rubyzhne.
If this is confirmed, it will be the first unit to be withdrawn after fighting in northeastern Ukraine and relocated back to eastern Ukraine, the U.S. Institute for the Study of War (ISW) war research institute wrote in its report on Ukraine on Friday. night. The Russian military would likely face the challenge of bringing together units from multiple military districts to form a uniformed fighting force.