In a statement, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that its troops were closing in on the city of Pokrovsk, a logistics hub used by the Ukrainian army.
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The Russian army assures that it continues to gain ground in eastern Ukraine, particularly around the city of Pokrovsk. In a press release published Tuesday, October 1, it announced that it had seized Kruty Iar, a locality located about ten kilometers southeast of this important logistical node for the Ukrainian troops.
The Ukrainian army, in difficulty in the east of the country facing Russian troops, who are more numerous and better equipped, launched an attack in the Kursk region at the beginning of August, hoping to force Moscow to redeploy its men in the Donetsk region and thus slow down their advances. In vain.
In its press release, the Russian Ministry of Defense also claimed the conquest of the locality of Vyshnévé, in the Kharkiv region, in the northeast of the country, but without specifying its location while several villages bear this name in this region. region. In the Donetsk region, Moscow’s troops are also getting dangerously close to the city of Toretsk. On Monday, they claimed to have conquered a small town located less than five kilometers south of the city.