Ukraine repels nearly seventy Russian attacks in seven different areas of the front

In the last 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled nearly seventy Russian attacks in seven different areas of the front, as reported today by the Kiev General Staff in its daily war report.

According to the Ukrainian Center for Defense Strategies, a think tank that follows the course of the war, Russian troops have managed to advance northwest of the occupied city of Bakhmut, in the eastern province of Donetsk, and near the town of Tokmak, on the Zaporizhia front (southern).

In the Avdivka axis, near the occupied capital of the Donetsk region, Russian forces have managed to penetrate between 300 meters and one kilometer into territory previously controlled by Ukraine in two different directions, according to this center.

Hostilities also continue in the northeastern province of Kharkiv.

According to the Institute for the Study of War, a private American institution that analyzes the conflict daily, Russia lacks the potential to conquer this region and seeks to create a buffer zone there between the territory under Kiev’s control and the Russian border province of Belgorod. .

This Russian oblast has been the target in recent days of insistent Ukrainian attacks that killed 25 people on December 30.

While the war continues, the Italian government of the far-right Giorgia Meloni supports “incisive diplomatic action” aimed at achieving peace negotiations in the conflict in Ukraine because there are “important signals coming from both parties” about their “willingness for dialogue,” he said. the Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto.

Response to massive Russian bombing of Ukraine

This Ukrainian attack would have been a response to the massive Russian bombing of Ukraine the previous day, in which Russia used a record number of missiles since the beginning of the war and killed more than fifty people across the country.

According to the Kiev General Staff, Russia is concentrating troops along the border with Ukraine in Belgorod, and has increased the density of minefields in the area to prevent new Ukrainian ground incursions.

This fall, Russia regained the initiative on the front after the counteroffensive that Ukraine had launched on June 5 stalled without achieving its objectives.

Russia asserts its superiority

Despite suffering massive casualties and material losses, Russian forces assert their superiority in numbers of artillery systems, ammunition and drones to put Ukraine on the defensive.

A Ukrainian Army soldier who recently returned from the Sloviansk front, in the north of the eastern region of Donetsk, described the situation in that area as “complicated” for Ukraine on Tuesday.

“The Russians are pressing,” said the soldier, who alluded to the numerical superiority in drones of the Russian forces. The bad weather conditions and the mud that has formed in that part of the front, the soldier added, have slowed down Russian operations in recent weeks. EFE mg/egw/alf

Anti-aircraft defense shoots down a Ukrainian drone in the Russian Saratov region

Russian air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian drone on Tuesday night in the Saratov region, located about 300 kilometers east of Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry reported today.

“Last night an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack with a fixed-wing drone against facilities on the territory of the Russian Federation was thwarted,” the Ministry of Defense said in a statement published on its Telegram channel.

The device, the ministry added, was destroyed by anti-aircraft defenses over the territory of the Saratov region, in southern Russia.

The military statement did not specify whether the downing of the drone caused damage on the ground.

This Tuesday the authorities of the Oryol region, which like the Saratov region does not have a border with Ukraine, reported a Ukrainian attack with two drones against an energy facility located in the regional capital, the city of Oryol.

Zelensky says Ukraine’s priority need is to obtain anti-aircraft defenses

Ukraine’s main need now is to receive more air defense systems, including weapons that can shoot down ballistic missiles, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

At a press conference in Vilnius, where he traveled by surprise this Wednesday to meet with the Lithuanian president, Gitanas Nauseda, Zelensky also stressed that he hopes that the NATO summit in Washington next July will serve to take “a concrete step ” towards Kiev’s entry into the alliance.

Putin says he feels strong enough to accomplish the tasks facing the country

The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, affirmed that he feels strong enough to accomplish the tasks facing the country, in a meeting with residents in Anadyr, the capital of the autonomous region of Chukotka, in the Russian Far East.

Ukraine opens line to connect Russian prisoners of war with their families

The Ukrainian authorities also presented the ‘I want to find’ project (‘Ya jochu naiti’ in Russian), which offers relatives of Russian prisoners of war captured by Ukraine a direct line to the Kiev authorities to access information about their whereabouts that Moscow supposedly denies them. With EFE

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