Russian army claims capture of town in Donetsk region

Moscow continues its breakthrough. The Russian army assured, Tuesday, July 30, that it had seized a new locality in the Donetsk region, in the East of Ukraine. “Units of the Central group (…) liberated the town of Leninskoye”announced the Russian Defense Minister, Andrei Belousov. The town in question, which is called Pivden in Ukrainian, had 1,400 inhabitants before the Russian attack in February 2022. It is located near the cities of Toretsk and New York, still under Ukrainian control, but which have been the target of a Russian offensive for several weeks.

Russia thus continues to gain ground in the Donetsk region, which it claims to annex and where it has had the initiative since the failure of the Ukrainian counter-offensive in the summer of 2023 and the fall of the fortress town of Avdiivka in February 2024. On Monday, the Russian army claimed the capture of yet another small village, Vovche, in the same region. The day before, it had claimed to have captured two neighboring towns, Progress and Yevgenivka.

In other areas of the region, the Russian army is still attacking the strategic city of Chassiv Yar, near that of Bakhmut captured by Russia in May 2023 and almost annihilated after a hellish battle that lasted 10 months. kyiv is suffering from the numerical and material superiority of Russia, which has more ammunition and makes massive use of gliding bombs, which are difficult to counter and particularly effective against the strongest fortifications.