Russia launched 39 night airstrikes in different parts of Ukraine

Ukrainian servicemen use a searchlight as they search for drones in the sky over the city during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kiev, Ukraine May 19, 2023. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (GLEB GARANICH/)

invading forces russian they launched overnight 39 air strikes against different regions of Ukraine in addition to an equal number of offensives with missiles and fifty attacks MLRSreported the Ukrainian general staff via Facebook.

In Sivershchyna and Slobozhanshchyna the Russians fired mortars and artillery at the settlements of Leonivka, Studenok, Boyaro-Lezhachi, Pavlivka, Basivka, Myropillia, Mezenivka in the Sumy region and Starytsia, Synelnykove, Ohirtseve, Hatyshche, Nesterne and Budarky in the Charkov region.

In Bakhmut the invaders continue to carry out offensive operations and intense fighting continues for the city.

A Ukrainian service member of a 28th separate mechanized brigade named the Ukrainian Armed Forces Winter Campaign Knights prepares to fire a mortar at his positions on a front line, amidst attack by Russia against Ukraine, near the town of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, Ukraine May 18, 2023. REUTERS/Sofiia Gatilova/File
A Ukrainian service member of a 28th separate mechanized brigade named the Ukrainian Armed Forces Winter Campaign Knights prepares to fire a mortar at his positions on a front line, amidst attack by Russia against Ukraine, near the city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, Ukraine May 18, 2023. REUTERS/Sofiia Gatilova/File (STRINGER/)

In addition, they launched airstrikes in the areas of Bohdanivka, Bakhmut and Predtechyne, Vasiukivka, Zaliznianske, Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Hryhorivka, Bohdanivka, Bachmut, Ivanivske, Chasiv Yar, Bila Hora and Pivnichne settlements in the Donetsk region.

During the last day Ukrainian soldiers destroyed 21 enemy cruise missiles and eight air vehicles drones of various kinds.

Ukrainian artillery and missile units attacked a group of enemy weapons and military equipment, an ammunition depot, three artillery units in firing positions, an anti-aircraft missile system, seven electronic warfare stations and a radar station.

Ukrainian advances near Bakhmut

Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi, the commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, released a video on Thursday showing Ukrainian forces attacking and destroying Russian units near Bakhmut.

The caption of the video posted on the Telegram messaging application says that you can see the activities of the 225th Kharkiv Battalion in the Bakhmut area.

Ukraine’s military said on Thursday that it had succeeded new territorial advances in intense fighting around the eastern city, despite being outgunned and outnumbered by Russian forces.

Last week, kyiv said he increased the pressure on the troops of Moscow north and south of Bakhmut. Russian mercenary forces, the wagner groupThey say they have made progress inside the city, where kyiv has acknowledged that they have made little progress.

However, they affirm that given the advances on the flanks of the city, the paramilitaries led by Yevgeny Prigozhin they will be trapped as “rats in a mousetrap”.

(With information from EFE and Reuters)

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