Putin Sees Good points on Ukraine Frontlines, Together with Avdiivka

Russian forces have made beneficial properties of their Ukraine offensive, President Vladimir Putin stated Sunday, together with in Avdiivka, a symbolic industrial hub the place preventing has been fierce.

“Our troops are enhancing their place in virtually all of this space, which is kind of huge,” he stated in an interview on Russian tv, an extract of which was posted on social media on Sunday.

“This issues the areas of Kupiansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Avdiivka,” Putin stated, praising the military’s “lively protection technique.”

On Saturday, Kyiv reported “very heated” preventing round Avdiivka Saturday, saying Russian forces had “not stopped assaulting” it for days of their try to encompass it.

Russian forces deploying white phosphorus munitions towards Ukrainian positions in Avdiivka, Donetsk Oblast, throughout their offensive. pic.twitter.com/RTsRkVpJOq

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Ukraine final week stated Russia had stepped up assaults on the frontline metropolis, which lies simply 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Moscow-held Donetsk.

Avdiivka has been a logo of Ukrainian resistance since 2014, after it briefly fell to Russian-backed separatists.

It has since marked the frontline and was commonly bombed even earlier than the offensive started in February 2022.

Russian forces now management territory to the east, north, and south of Avdiivka in a bid to push Ukrainian forces farther from Donetsk.

Some 1,600 civilians are believed to be within the metropolis, which had a pre-war inhabitants of 31,000.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had stated Kyiv was holding its floor in Avdiivka, however Moscow has beforehand claimed its positions had improved there.

On Sunday, Kyiv’s military stated Russian assaults had been “repelled” within the space and remained “with out success.”

A number of analysts, utilizing open supply photographs of the assault on Avdiivka posted on social networks, have famous the Russians seem to struggling main losses of army materiel.

Russia’s intensified assault on Avdiivka has come after 4 months of a Ukrainian counter-offensive, which has been slower than anticipated.

Putin on Sunday repeated that the counter-offensive had “completely failed.”

“We all know that in some fight zones, the enemy is making ready new offensive operations,” he stated.

“We see it, we all know it. And as a consequence we’re reacting.”

Russian strikes have left 4 individuals lifeless and three wounded since Saturday within the jap area of Kharkiv and Kherson, within the south, native authorities stated.