The Ukrainian army has reported advances throughout its counteroffensive within the south and persevering with efforts to carry off Russian advances in the japanese Donbas area.
The Normal Employees of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported Monday extra Russian efforts to degrade Ukrainian defenses in Luhansk and Donetsk, saying that artillery, airstrikes and missiles had been utilized in a number of locations — together with Lysychansk and Soledar.
Russian stress on Severodonetsk, a metropolis the place two-thirds of properties have been reported as destroyed, continues — with the Normal Employees saying that hostilities persist in and across the metropolis.
Because the Russians assault Ukrainian strains in Donbas from the south, east and north, there are conflicting claims about their progress.
The Normal Employees mentioned that preventing continues across the village of Komyshuvakha, to the southwest of Severodonetsk. Social media video geolocated by CNN seems to point out a Chechen unit within the village, with drone footage suggesting Ukrainian troopers retreating from the world. A Chechen commander says: “This locality is now beneath our management, and we are going to start storming all fronts. We’ve got seized, fully, you can say, Komyshuvakha.”
Ukraine has claimed some success in its offensive within the south, which started in the course of the weekend. The Normal Employees mentioned, “the enemy suffered losses and withdrew from the village of Mykolaivka, Kherson area, which led to panic amongst servicemen of different items of the armed forces of the Russian Federation.”
If Russian forces have withdrawn from Mykolaivka, it will symbolize a achieve of a number of kilometers for Ukrainian items.
The Normal Employees reported continued 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 just lately been retaken by Ukrainian forces.
Serhiy Hayday, the top of the Luhansk area army administration, mentioned late Monday that whereas all elements of Luhansk area nonetheless beneath Ukrainian management are being attacked, “the state of affairs in Severodonetsk is admittedly essentially the most troublesome.”
The official famous that Russian forces had been capable of “push by territory from the outskirts of town, the place the Myr resort is, and transfer just a little deeper into town. Within the metropolis now, there are and can be avenue battles.”
CNN’s Kostan Nechyporenko contributed reporting to this put up.
