issuing time: 24/05/2022 – 20:16
Today, Tuesday, May 24, as the Ukrainian war enters its fourth month, the Russian army is concentrating its offensive on the last Ukrainian garrison resistance zone in the Luhansk region of eastern Donbass.
Ukrainians have been acknowledging the existence of the Donbas region, which consists of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, after Ukrainian forces drove Russian troops out of the country’s two largest cities, Kyiv and Kharkov, in April and May respectively.” difficulty”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said last night that the situation in Donbass was even “extremely difficult”: “The Russians are trying to “annihilate everything that has life”.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s report outlining the Russian encirclement strategy said Moscow was concentrating its firepower on the Ukrainians’ retreat in the Luhansk region in an attempt to encircle the cities of Severo-Donetsk and Lisichansk. Intense fighting took place near the towns of Popasna and Bakhmut.
“The war in the coming weeks will be difficult”, Zelensky warned in his daily televised address last night. “The Russian occupiers are trying to show that they will not give up the occupied areas in the Kharkiv region (northeast), they will not hand over the occupied areas in the Kherson region (south), Zaporozhye region (southeast),” he said. ) and the lands occupied by the Donbass (Eastern). They advanced in some places and strengthened their position in others.
Its divisions are advancing through the Mikolayev area towards the Kherson area, where the use of Russian rubles has begun, according to a report from the Uzbek Southern Command on Monday night. The report accused Russian “occupiers” of killing civilians who tried to flee by car with mines, bombs and executions of survivors.
As Moscow increases military pressure in the Donbas region, Kyiv has received support from the West in calling for more weapons from the international community.
44 countries discussed military aid to Ukraine on Monday during a video conference of the Contact Group for the Defense of Ukraine. U.S. Secretary of Defense Austin announced that 20 of these countries have pledged to provide additional weapons to Kyiv, while others will be responsible for training Ukrainian troops.
However, after Congress approved $40 billion in additional aid to Ukraine, the U.S. defense secretary declined to specify the weapons provided by the United States.
Denmark, however, has pledged to supply Ukraine with the Harpoon anti-ship missile system, which would allow Ukraine to counter the Russian Navy’s blockade of the port of Odessa, which is vital for the country’s wheat exports, which are in turn important to many other countries critical. The missiles can even reach Crimea, which has been occupied by Moscow since 2014.