The Ukrainian army has reported advances all the way through its counteroffensive within the south and proceeding efforts to carry off Russian advances in the japanese Donbas area.
The Normal Group of workers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported Monday further Russian efforts to degrade Ukrainian defenses in Luhansk and Donetsk, pronouncing that artillery, airstrikes and missiles were utilized in a number of puts — together with Lysychansk and Soledar.
Russian power on Severodonetsk, a town the place two-thirds of houses were reported as destroyed, continues — with the Normal Group of workers pronouncing that hostilities persist in and across the town.
Because the Russians assault Ukrainian strains in Donbas from the south, east and north, there are conflicting claims about their growth.
The Normal Group of workers mentioned that combating continues across the village of Komyshuvakha, to the southwest of Severodonetsk. Social media video geolocated by means of CNN seems to turn a Chechen unit within the village, with drone photos suggesting Ukrainian infantrymen backing out from the world. A Chechen commander says: “This locality is now underneath our keep watch over, and we will be able to start storming all fronts. We now have seized, utterly, it’s essential say, Komyshuvakha.”
Ukraine has claimed some luck in its offensive within the south, which started all the way through the weekend. The Normal Group of workers mentioned, “the enemy suffered losses and withdrew from the village of Mykolaivka, Kherson area, which ended in panic amongst servicemen of different gadgets of the defense force of the Russian Federation.”
If Russian forces have withdrawn from Mykolaivka, it might constitute a achieve of a number of kilometers for Ukrainian gadgets.
The Normal Group of workers reported persevered additional cross-border shelling of settlements within the northern areas of Chernihiv and Sumy, in addition to shelling of territory north of town of Kharkiv which has not too long ago been retaken by means of Ukrainian forces.
Serhiy Hayday, the pinnacle of the Luhansk area army management, mentioned past due Monday that whilst all portions of Luhansk area nonetheless underneath Ukrainian keep watch over are being attacked, “the location in Severodonetsk is in reality probably the most tough.”
The reliable famous that Russian forces were ready to “push thru territory from the outskirts of town, the place the Myr resort is, and transfer just a little deeper into town. Within the town now, there are and might be side road battles.”
CNN’s Kostan Nechyporenko contributed reporting to this submit.
