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| Battle rages for the region of Donbas |
| 2022-05-16 |
Russia pummelled positions in the east of Ukraine on Sunday, its defence ministry said, as it sought to encircle Ukrainian forces in the battle for Donbas and fend off a counteroffensive around the strategic Russian-controlled city of Izium.Since mid-April, Russian forces have focused much of their firepower on trying to capture two eastern provinces known as the Donbas. "Russia’s war in Ukraine is not going as Moscow had planned," NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said. Russia said on Sunday it had struck Ukrainian positions in the east with missiles, targeting command centres and arsenals as its forces seek to surround Ukrainian units between Izium and Donetsk. Izium straddles the Donets river, about 120 km (75 miles) from Kharkiv on the main highway heading southeast. "The hottest spot remains the Izium direction," Ukrainian regional governor Oleh Sinegubov said in comments aired on social media. Ukraine’s military acknowledged setbacks in an update on Sunday morning: "Despite losses, Russian forces continue to advance in the Lyman, Sievierodonetsk, Avdiivka and Kurakhiv areas in the broader Donbas region." In western Ukraine near Poland, missiles destroyed military infrastructure overnight on Saturday and were fired at the Lviv region from the Black Sea, Ukrainian officials said. Nine civilians were maimed in Russian shelling of Sievierodonetsk hospital yesterday evening, Serhiy Gaidai, governor of the eastern Luhansk region, said on the Telegram messaging application. Another 10 civilians were maimed in the southern region of Mykolaiv in the last 24 hours, the regional council said, without providing details. The reports could not be independently verified. There was also no let-up on Sunday in Russia’s bombardment of the steelworks in the southern port of Mariupol, where a few hundred Ukrainian fighters are holding out weeks after the city fell into Russian hands, the Ukrainian military said. Brightly burning munitions were shown cascading down on the steelworks in a video posted by a pro-Russian separatist commander. A large convoy carrying refugees from the ruins of Mariupol arrived in the Ukrainian-controlled city of Zaporizhzhia after nightfall on Saturday after waiting days for Russian troops to allow them to leave. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Ukraine troops reached the Russian border east of Kharkiv today. Apparently Russia can't or won't be able to hold the north part of the front. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2022-05-16 18:39 |