Russian troops are pushing for an offensive in the eastern region of Donbass in a bid to take full control of Ukraine’s industrial center, but have made little progress as fierce Ukrainian counterattacks have slowed their efforts, Ukrainian and British officials said on Saturday.
Russia continues to fight for full control of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions that make up Donbass and seeks to secure a “land route between those territories and occupied Crimea”, including by destroying the last pockets of resistance in the besieged port city of Mariupol. the General Staff of Ukraine.
In the last 24 hours, Ukrainian forces repulsed eight Russian attacks in the two regions, destroying 9 tanks, 18 armored units and 13 vehicles, a tanker and three artillery systems, the General Staff said.
“The units of the Russian occupiers are regrouping. The Russian enemy continues to launch missile and bomb strikes on military and civilian infrastructure,” the General Staff said on its Facebook page.
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