Moscow’s progress in the Avdeevka area in Donetsk has been vindicated, but in Kharkiv there is a stalemate
Moscow’s forces are advancing in the Avdeevka area of Donetsk, where they have taken control of the settlements of Netailovo and Umanskoye, as well as “improving their position on the front line in the direction of Ocheretino”, claimed the pro-Russian leader of the Donetsk region. east of Ukraine, Denis Pushilin, while the offensive launched by Russia in the Kharkiv region on May 10th “has stalled”, as US national security advisor Jake Sullivan stated yesterday in an interview with CBS. “The momentum of this operation has stalled. Kharkiv continues to be under threat but the Russians have in recent days been unable to make material progress on the ground in that area,” Sullivan said, after the US recently gave the green light for the use of weapons supplied to Kiev against targets in Russia. “It made no sense, from the President’s point of view, not to authorize the Ukrainians to shoot across the border, to hit Russian artillery positions from which they shoot at the Ukrainians.” The area around Avdeevka “is where we are seeing the greatest progress”, he said, quoted by the Tass agency, specifying that the military is also advancing towards Chasorv Yar. Pushilin also said that more than 60 percent of the region’s territory has been liberated, while acknowledging that numerous cities remain under Ukrainian control (Krasnoarmesk, Dobropole, Druzhkovka, Konstantinovka, Kramatorsk, Slavyansk).
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