RUSSIA CLAIMS CONTROL OF ANOTHER VILLAGE IN DONETSK REGION OF UKRAINE

Thu 02 May 2024:

Russia on Thursday said it took control of another village in Ukraine’s Donetsk region.

“As a result of active actions, units of the Center group of troops completely liberated the settlement of Berdychi in the Donetsk People’s Republic,” a Russian Defense Ministry statement said.

Indicating that heavy fighting has continued across the front line, the ministry said the Russian forces were able to improve their positions in some areas.

Last week, Russian forces broke through Ukrainian lines in the village of Ocheretyne, building on momentum from the February capture of the industrial city of Avdiyivka about 25 kilometers to the southeast. Commanders quickly redeployed exhausted troops from another brigade that had been fighting in the area for more than a year.

Ukraine’s commander in chief didn’t mince words.

“The situation at the front has worsened,” Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskiy said in a post to Telegram on April 28. Russian forces, he said, were “actively attacking along the entire front line with tactical successes in some areas.”

Beleaguered and outgunned, Ukrainian forces got a jolt of morale-boosting news last week, when U.S. lawmakers finally pushed through a $60 billion aid package dominated by weapons: anti-aircraft missiles; small-arms ammunition; 105 mm and 155 mm howitzer artillery; shells for high-precision HIMARS artillery systems, Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, and more. It came months after the last substantial deliveries were made.

According to the ministry, since the beginning of Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine, the Russian forces have destroyed 23,673 unmanned aerial vehicles, 509 anti-aircraft missile systems, 15,898 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,277 multiple rocket launchers, 9,246 field artillery and mortars and 21,441 vehicles.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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