The situation is “complicated” on the ground in front of Russian troops in Ukraine, which is once again the target of intense bombing, President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged on Saturday.
“The occupier increasingly mobilizes its forces”
“During the 346 days of this war, I have said many times that the situation at the front is difficult. And the situation is getting more complicated, ”he said in his daily message.
“Now we are back at that moment. A moment in which the occupier is increasingly mobilizing its forces to break through our defense. It is very difficult now in Bakhmout, Vougledar, Lyman (in the east of the country, editor’s note) and in other regions,” added the Ukrainian head of state.
“The enemy is regrouping in certain areas. It is concentrating its main efforts on carrying out offensive operations in the directions of Kupyansk, Lyman, Bakhmout, Avdiivka and Novopavlivka,” the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense had warned shortly before.
Shells in 26 locations
In the Donetsk region, “massive” artillery fire targeted Avdiivka on the eastern front line on Saturday morning after Kramatorsk, another city highly coveted by the Russians, was hit overnight by rockets the Ukrainian authorities reported.
In the last 24 hours, only in the southern province of Zaporizhia, shells have fallen on “civilian infrastructures” located in the territories of 26 localities, according to the same sources. Attacks also continued on Kherson, a major southern city taken and then abandoned by the Russians.
Ukrainian border guards for their part claimed on Saturday that they had repelled an “assault by the invaders” and pursued them from the suburbs of Bakhmout after aerial reconnaissance revealed that “the enemy was preparing to attack” this town at the epicenter of the battles. in Ukraine.
Source: BFM TV
