In the Ukraine war, the Kiev government currently sees its troops in a “very difficult time at the front”. The fierce fighting was taking place mainly in Donbas, in the east of the country, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said yesterday at the World Economic Forum in Davos. “The fight for the Donbas is very similar to the fight in World War II.”
“Some villages and towns just don’t exist anymore,” Kuleba said. “They were reduced to rubble by Russian artillery fire and Russian rocket launch systems.”
Russian troops in the Donbas are currently mainly focusing on the strategically important industrial city of Sievjerodonetsk. The situation is “very difficult” and “there are already fighting in the suburbs,” Governor Serhiy Gajdaj wrote yesterday on social media.
“Russian troops are already close enough to fire mortars.” According to the governor, “next week could be decisive”.