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Russia launches its offensive on the Donbass with an intense bombardment campaign

2022-04-19T19:19:27.987Z


STORY - The Russian army launched the assault on the Ukrainian lines in the East, with heavy artillery reinforcement.


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We had been talking about it for weeks, so the “great offensive” on eastern Ukraine would be launched.

In the Russian way, that is, with intense artillery preparation on the front lines of Donbass.

Salvos of "

high precision missiles

" were thus fired at

"13 strongholds of the Ukrainian army

".

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said we were entering a “

new phase

”.

I am convinced that this will be a very important moment for this special operation

,” he said.

According to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, the “

liberation plan

” of the two pro-Russian “

Republics

” of Donetsk and Luhansk is proceeding as planned.

This may be the case, even if Moscow has held this discourse since February 24, with however some annoyances on the ground.

According to kyiv, the Russian troops would have launched the assault on the entire front line, with great reinforcement of cannons and rocket launchers.

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Source: lefigaro

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