In the Dombass, the Russian troops continue their attempts to gain ground, while only a few days before Friday, August 8, the ultimatum date launched by Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin for a high fire left.
These last 24 hours have been marked by the shot claimed by Moscow of the town of Tchassiv Iar in the Oblast of Donetsk, immediately denied by kyiv. According to the American War Institute, the Russians took possession of almost 80% of the city.
“They will undoubtedly take total control in the next few days that will open probable ways of attacking the Ukrainian belt, composed of fortified cities and forming the defensive spine of Ukraine in this Oblast of Donetsk,” summarizing the researchers in their report published this Thursday, July 31.
Priority in Pokrovsk
The front line is now about ten kilometers from the town of KostyantyNivka, which also constitutes an important link in the Ukrainian defense network in the region, connected to Slovyansk by a road. Kramorsk is about thirty kilometers more northwest.
“It would be a way to radiate north, about 50 and 60 kilometers, it is very limited,” said Jérôme Clech, BFMTV defense consultant. He considers the fight more likely to be fought more in the south of this front.
The Russian army concentrates its efforts in the area with attacks with unmanned airplanes and massive artillery fire. “More than 100,000 men who would have been massified on this front, especially for these battles of Tchassiv Iar, then in Pokrovsk,” he adds.
The Russian army accelerated its progression in July for the fourth consecutive month, according to the AFP analysis of the data provided by the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
However, the numerous losses and the scarce territorial gains (26 months to advance from 11 kilometers west from Bakhmout) make you think of US researchers that this thrust will decelerate itself at the end of summer and autumn rains.
A massive resource to drones
In July, Moscow has launched more drones against Ukraine that in any other month since the beginning of the invasion in February 2022.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, however, said Friday that he wanted a “lasting peace” in Ukraine on Friday, his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky called him, In response, gather to negotiate. Among the requirements of the Kremlin, the sale of four regions of the south and east of Ukraine, as well as Crimea, the “demilitarization” of the country and its resignation to join NATO, which kyiv judges unacceptable.
Russia and Ukraine have had Three direct conversations sessions Directed by negotiator teams, without achieving real advances towards a peace agreement.
Source: BFM TV
