War in Ukraine, Day 552. On Tuesday, Ukraine said its troops had advanced deeper into the Russian defensive line near Robotin, a day after it took control of a village on the southern front.
The most important events in the last 24 hours:
- Ukraine Penetrates Deeper into Russia’s Defense Line
- Russian attacks in Ukraine have killed at least six in the last 24 hours
- Russia destroyed two Ukrainian drones in the Tula region
- During his visit to Prague, Kuleba thanked the Czech Republic for solidarity with Ukraine
- Poland and the Baltic states ask Belarus to expel a group of Russian Wagner mercenaries
- Kremlin confirms Putin-Erdogan meeting to take place soon
- Russia has lost 261,310 soldiers since the start of the war.
- A woman died as a result of an attack by Russians in a village in the Kherson region
- Zelensky said that elections in Ukraine could be held next year
- Ukraine declares the liberation of the village of Robotine in the southeast of the country
Update 12:00. Ukraine said on Tuesday its troops had penetrated deeper into the Russian defensive line near Robotin, a day after it took control of a village on the southern front, writes The Guardian, cited by Mediafax.
Army spokesman Andriy Kovalyov said Ukrainian forces have advanced further into the Zaporozhye region, which Moscow claims is part of Russia, Agence France-Presse reported.
“Ukrainian forces have managed to advance towards Novodanilovka towards Verbove,” he told state media on Tuesday.
Andrei Kovalev added that the troops were holding the occupied territory and attacking Russian artillery. These claims have yet to be independently verified.
Ukrainian troops also attempted to encircle the eastern town of Bakhmut, which was captured by Russian forces in May.
The head of the Donetsk region, where Bakhmut is based, downplayed the importance of Ukrainian forces on Tuesday after Kyiv claimed success.
“The flanks are saved. The situation there is already stabilizing,” Denis Pushilin reportedly told Russian state media.
Update 11:00. Russian strikes in Ukraine have killed at least six people, military officials said Tuesday.
Five dead were recorded on Monday in the east of the Donetsk region, where four more were also injured, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the military administration of the Donetsk region, said in a message on Telegram on Tuesday.
In the village of Dalnee, two people died, in Toretsky, Limansky and Velikonovoselsky districts, one person died, Kirilenko said.
In the south of the Kherson region, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed and four were injured, said the head of the local military administration Alexander Prokudin.
According to him, residential areas and buildings of preschool institutions were damaged in two districts of Kherson, CNN reports.
Update 09:40. Russian air defense destroyed two Ukrainian drones in the Tula region south of Moscow on Tuesday morning, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement, according to CNN.
“This morning, an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using two aviation-type UAVs on objects of the Russian Federation was thwarted,” the report says.
Ukraine has not yet commented on the alleged attack.
In recent weeks, Russian officials have reported almost daily Ukrainian drone attacks and attempted attacks on Russian territory.
But Kyiv often refuses to take responsibility for cross-border attacks, even though Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said last month that the war was “back to Russia.”
Commander of the Ground Forces of the Ukrainian Army asked to strengthen the defense of the city of Kupyansk contrary to the recommendations of the United States
Commander of the Ground Forces of the Ukrainian Army Alexander Syrsky called for strengthening the defense of the city of Kupyansk, but the leadership of the US military does not agree with this.
Ukrainian troops are advancing along the front in the Zaporozhye region in the south of the country, while Russian troops have stepped up attacks in areas around the besieged city of Kupyansk on the eastern front, CNN reported, citing information released by the Ukrainian military on Sunday. .
Russian shelling of Kupyansk in recent weeks has been so intense that it has caused a massive evacuation of the civilian population.
The decision of the Ukrainian command to strengthen the defense of the Kupyansky district of the Kharkiv region contradicts the recommendations of the American army, writes The New York Times.
On August 25, the commander of the Ukrainian Army Ground Forces, General Alexander Syrsky, who defended Kiev and led a successful counteroffensive last year, announced the need to strengthen the defense of Kupyansk due to attacks by Russian troops involving artillery and aircraft.
The Pentagon, for its part, the newspaper writes, believes that Ukraine should not divert troops to strengthen the defense of the Kupyansky region, but concentrate them on a sector of the front to break through the Russian defenses.
According to analysts cited by The New York Times, it is unlikely that Russian troops will try to capture Kupyansk, since they will have to hold the river-crossed city with limited supply routes. Russian troops were forced to withdraw from Kherson on similar terms.
War in Ukraine, August 28 | The Ukrainian army reports that it has liberated a strategic settlement in the southeast of the country
War in Ukraine, August 27 | 100,000 soldiers of the Russian army are stationed in eastern Ukraine.
War in Ukraine, August 26 | Putin ordered Wagner fighters to sign an oath of allegiance to Russia
War in Ukraine, August 25 | Major assault on the Ukrainians on the Zaporizhzhya front
War in Ukraine, August 24 | Pentagon spokesman: Claims that Prigozhin’s plane crashed due to surface-to-air missiles are “inaccurate”