The Kremlin’s army has advanced rapidly in the Donetsk region in recent weeks and has regularly claimed control of small villages there.
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Russian troops continue to gain ground against a Ukrainian army lacking soldiers and firepower. Through its Defense Ministry, Moscow announced on Saturday, September 14, that it had conquered a new locality in eastern Ukraine. The small village of Jelanne Perche, in the Pokrovsk district,“was liberated thanks to active and decisive operations of units of the Southern group”the ministry said. A week earlier, the Russian army claimed to have captured the villages of Kalynove and Novohrodivka in the same region.
Russian President Vladimir Putin recalled at the beginning of September that the conquest of Donbass, the Ukrainian industrial basin which includes the Donetsk region, was his “priority number one”.
On Tuesday, the Ukrainian army also claimed to have captured a town, Krasnogorivka, in the same Pokrovsk district, which represents an important logistical hub for the Ukrainian army.
Ukraine, struggling in the east, launched a major attack on August 6 in the Russian region of Kursk, seizing several hundred square kilometers according to kyiv. It hoped to force Moscow to redeploy its troops that are in the Donetsk region and thus slow their advances, but Russian soldiers continue to advance for the time being.