Everything seemed arranged this week so that Air attacks against energy facilities will stop producing For 30 days. Putin had given the order to his army to end them after talking with Tuesday with Trump; And Zelenski had also accepted the pact after a call with US President a day later. However, the details of the agreement, the lack of a signature and discrepancies on the list of facilities included in this partial truce They have lengthened their implementation. This Monday both countries will meet separately with the US in Saudi Arabia, where the agreement will be sealing. But until this happens the bombings will continue to fall with intensity, while the Russian advances in the front continue.
After his progress in Kursk’s Russian region, Moscow is now trying Most expel to the Ukrainian forces of their territory. However, now that Ukraine fights closer to his border, receives more support from his artillery and drones, in the face of Russian numerical superiority. Zelenski insisted on Wednesday that, contrary to what Putin and Trump claim, there are no Ukrainian forces surrounded in Kursk. However, a total of 544 people have been evacuated from the Sudzha district, after Having recovered this citythe largest occupied by Ukraine.
In neighboring Sumi, the Russian attempts to cross the border and penetrate the region remain limited and do not threaten the regional capital for the moment.
Russia advances in Zaporiyia and Donbás
As for the rest of open fronts, the Ukrainian forces have recently advanced in the Belgorod region and in some Pokrovsk area, to the east. However, there have been Russian forces that More territory have advanced in the last weekthat they have not only recovered a good part of the land in Kursk, but they have also advanced (although moderately) near Toretsk, Pokrovsk and Vleyka Novosilka, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), an American Think Tank that monitors the conflict.
This agency acknowledges that Russian forces are probable to intensify their offensive operations in the west of Zaporiyia to move towards the city of Zaporiyia, given the continuous demands of the Kremlin that Ukraine gives in the entire bong of the bib on Russia. “Russian forces is likely too are trying to attract and fix the Ukrainian forces to other areas of the front line so that they can prioritize certain efforts and achieve significant advances in the theater of operations as the weather improves and Russia prolongs negotiations, “you can read in one of your latest reports.
The wave of attacks on this region represents the first significant escalation in the region from the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the summer of 2023, according to Ukrainian military analysts. The Russian army is trying to penetrate the Ukrainian defenses between Piatijatki and Mali Scherbaki since the beginning of March, says the Deepstate analysis platform, and In recent days he has managed to advance in that areawhere his troops have entered three new locations. Ukrainian analysts have stressed that the Ukrainian troops that defend the region are less experienced and have less equipment than those of the eastern front. However, military analyst Oleksandr Kovalenko predicts that Russia will have difficulties to achieve significant advances towards Zaporiyia.
In the Eastern Front, the situation remains complicated for Ukraine, where Russia tries to advance near Kúpiansk, in the Járkov region, and throughout the contact line in Donetsk. Over the last days, the Russian forces achieved Small advances near Liman, as well as in Toretsk and Chásiv Yar. Despite this, Russia continues to suffer strong casualties, while Ukrainian forces launch counterattacks systematically, according to Kovalenko. In Donetsk, Ukrainian troops have recovered in recent weeks parts of key locations -kotline, Shevchenko and Pishchane- near Pokrovsk, stopping the Russian impulse in that sector. Information from the front also highlights the diminishing use of heavy equipment such as tanks and armored vehicles by the Russians.
Mikola Koval, spokesman for the Ukrainian Brigade Chervona Kalina, told local media that Russian assaults now employ unconventional means of transportincluding bicycles, electric scooters, motorcycles and SUVs. Kovalenko attributes part of merit when it comes to stopping Russian advances towards Pokrovsk to strengthening the military command. “The coordination between units and other aspects has improved since the appointment of General Mikhail Drapati as head of the Eastern forces,” I confirm to Efe.
Air attack campaign
These land movements have been complemented with an intense campaign of air attacks on both parties. With objectives that include energy infrastructure despite negotiations in this regard. The Ukrainian forces held a Drones attack against the Engels Air Basein the province of Sarátov and Russia he accused kyiv this week also launching one of the “most massive” attacks so far in war.
Meanwhile, Russia has continued with its attacks with missiles and drones in several areas of the territory, but especially in Zaporiyia and Odesa. This Friday the Russian army launched against Ukrainian territory A total of 214 unmanned devices Among attack drones and replicas of these without explosive load that Russians use to confuse Ukrainian defenses, according to the Ukraine Air Force on Friday.
Likewise, the information from the port city of Odessa suggests that Russia has begun to use a new tactic consisting of launching a greater number of kamikaze drones against its urban objectives to overwhelm its aerial defenses. On Thursday, the Russian drones gathered in larger groups near Odesa, rose to high height – some 2 kilometers on the ground – and then rushed over the city. “Russia has changed its tactics. Drones They operate in large quantities to overload aerial defenses And the electronic war systems, “said Andri Kovalenko, official of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
The new tactic makes drones tremendously inaccurate. Their trajectory and speed make them almost impossible to stop with machine guns used by mobile fire groups -saved with vehicles and projectors used in the middle of the deficit of other more sophisticated systems -he wrote for the resistance information group.
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