The Ukrainian army has been on the defensive since the failure of its major counter-offensive in the summer. Moscow regularly claims for its part the takeover of small localities.
:quality(50)/2023/07/06/64a68815cd1a7_placeholder-36b69ec8.png)
Published
Update
Reading time: 1 min
:quality(50)/2024/05/05/000-34pd9q3-66379e6879533326357385.jpg)
A new breakthrough. The Russian army claimed on Sunday May 5 to have conquered a new village in eastern Ukraine, Ocheretyne, a new sign of the push of Moscow’s forces against the Ukrainian army. The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement that its soldiers had “fully released” this village in the Donetsk region located northwest of Avdiïvka, a town that fell in February.
In recent months, Moscow has regularly claimed control of small towns in eastern Ukraine. On Thursday, the Russian army claimed to have captured Berdytchi, also close to Avdiïvka. The commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, Oleksandr Syrsky, recently admitted that the situation on the front had “deteriorated”.
The Ukrainian army has been on the defensive since the failure of its major counter-offensive last summer. The resumption of American military assistance, after the validation at the end of April of a $61 billion aid plan for kyiv, should allow Ukraine to consolidate its forces and attempt to stabilize the front, particularly in the is from the country.
