Top Russian official reports swift advance in Ukraine , rules out talks for now

Russian Security Council s Secretary Sergei Shoigu attended a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and military district commanders in Moscow, discussing the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine. Despite a Ukrainian incursion into western Russia in August, Russian forces advanced by 1,000 square kilometers (390 square miles) in eastern Ukraine, according to Russia. The war has been characterized by artillery and drone strikes along a heavily fortified 1,000-km (620-mile) front involving hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Russian forces aimed to improve their negotiating position with the Ukrainian incursion into Russia s Kursk region, but Shoigu stated that the pace of the offensive in Donbas was increasing, with almost 1,000 sq km captured over August and the first eight days of September. The Russian Defense Ministry announced the capture of four villages on the eastern front, although Ukrainian accounts disputed parts of this claim. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy praised troops for holding their positions in the two most difficult sectors in the east — Pokrovsk and Kurakhove. Zelenskiy has stated that the Kursk operation achieves several objectives, including preventing Russian forces from launching their own incursion on the Ukrainian side of the border in that area. Russian forces, which have taken about a fifth of Ukraine, are attempting to take the whole of the eastern Donbas region, comprised of Donetsk and Luhansk provinces. The area is about half the size of the U.S. state of Ohio. The Russian Defense Ministry reported that Moscow s forces had expanded their footprint and now controlled the Donetsk villages of Krasnohorivka, Hryhorivka, Vodiane, and Halytsynivka. Russia rarely comments on its losses, but Kyiv and its NATO allies claim that recent advances have come at a high cost in terms of casualties and destroyed armored vehicles. The General Staff of Ukraine s military reported that Kyiv s forces had repelled Russian attacks near Krasnohorivka and Hryhorivka, east of the key city of Pokrovsk. On Sunday, Russia claimed to have

Source: koreatimes.co.kr
Published on 2024-09-11

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