Ukrainian forces follow the offensive on the northern and southern flanks of Bakhmutin the east of the country, consolidate the recovered positions in the area southeast from the front and gradually advance into the southas the military is about to receive a shipment of 1,700 attack and reconnaissance drones to assist in the counteroffensiveofficials said Wednesday.
“The Ukrainian army continues the offensive north and south of the city of Bakhmut”, said the spokesman of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Andriy Kovalovquoted by the official Telegram channel of the army.
There was also heavy fighting near the villages of Klishchiivka, kurdyumivka and andriivkaon the southern flank of Bakhmuta small town reduced to ruins in a bloody battle that lasted for months and gave Russian forces control of the area for the time being.
Kovalov also explained that the Ukrainian Armed Forces “have been successful in the area of staromayorske”, where they “consolidate” the ground they have recaptured from the occupying Russian forces.
staromayorske is a town close to a group of villages that Ukraine recaptured in the region of Donetsk this summer. It is located next to the administrative boundary with the neighboring Zaporizhzhya and from this area of the southeastern front Ukraine is trying to push the Russian forces towards the Azov Sea port of Berdyansklocated further south and also occupied by Russia.
“The battles continue near staromayorskeour defenders have hitsthey were gaining a foothold on the borders reached”, also confirmed the Vice Minister of Defense Hanna Maliar.
Ukraine also pushes in the west of the province of Zaporizhzhya, the other segment of the southern front in which the counteroffensive is active. According to several independent sources that follow the course of the war, kyiv launched a bomb there in the last few hours. larger attack than the ones he had launched so far.
Russiawhich sent tens of thousands of troops to Ukraine in February 2022, maintains fringes of territory in the south and east. Ukraine launched a great offensive to make up ground this summer, but progress has been slow against entrenched Russian positions.
In the east, Maliar said Ukrainian forces were still repelling Russian advances in direction to Kupiansk and Lymanwhich Ukraine released last year.
Despite continued Western military aid, the Ukrainian military has claimed that Russia continues to have an advantage in artillery, tanks and manpower.
Mykhailo FedorovDeputy Prime Minister, said that 1,700 drones were on the way up front to help on offense.
“All of them are now heading to the front to protect the lives of our soldiers, make our artillery even more accurate and destroy the enemy,” Fedorov said in a video showing hundreds of drones arranged in rows over a field.
kyiv has tried different tactics to take down Russian artillery, air defenses, ammunition stores and logistics routes.
The Ukrainian producers have greatly increased the domestic production of drones and more than 10,000 drone operators have already been trained, while another 10,000 are currently being trained, according to Fedorov.
New Russian attack on Odessa
Meanwhile, Russia attacked again last night with cruise missiles Calibr a port infrastructure from the region of Odessain southern Ukraine, where a security guard died as a result of the bombing, the Military Administration of the area reported in a statement.
The representative of the Military Administration of the Odesa region, Oleg Kiper, explained in his Telegram account that the Russian missiles have caused damage to technical equipment from one of the cargo terminals of a port in the region that he did not specify. A construction dedicated to infrastructure security and two cars also suffered damage.
Last week, Russia attacked port infrastructure in the Odessa region dedicated to the grain exportafter announcing that it would not extend the so-called grain agreement by which it committed in July 2022 to allow the exit of agricultural products through three Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea.
Ukraine is looking with its international partners for formulas to reopen the corridor that the agreement provided for, which is vital for the export of Ukrainian agricultural products on which food security in various regions of the world depends to a large extent and the stability of the international agricultural market.
kyiv also needs more anti-aircraft systems to be able to protect its port infrastructure and not lose its ability to export by sea due to the damage caused by Russian attacks.
(With information from EFE and Reuters)
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