The Russian army has carried out around a hundred attacks in the last 24 hours on the Ukrainian Eastern Front, almost half of which were around Mariïnka, a new
“hot spot”
with the Avdiïvka area, the Ukrainian army said on Tuesday. .
“The enemy attempted 43 times to break through the defenses of our troops”
in the Mariïnka area, located in the Donetsk region, specifies the Ukrainian general staff in its morning report.
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The town of Mariïnka, completely destroyed, was taken in December by the Russian army.
The front has been largely frozen in the area since then, but in recent days Moscow has increased attacks towards the West.
The general staff cites in particular the localities of Novomykhaïlivka and especially Pobeda, whose conquest the Russian army claimed on Thursday, a few days after taking the town of Avdiïvka, after months of bloody fighting.
Several positions restored
“We are not focusing only on the direction of Avdiïvka, because we have another hot spot, first of all, we have the direction of Mariïnka”
, indicated Thursday evening Dmytro Lykhoviy, the spokesperson for the operational command in this area.
“Both in the directions of Avdiïvka and Mariïnka, our soldiers restored several positions, and in particular in the direction of Avdiïvka where more than a dozen Russian occupiers surrendered or were captured by our soldiers
, ”
he clarified.
The staff also noted 16 attacks in the direction of Bakhmout and 14 in that of Lyman.
The Ukrainian Air Force also announced that it had destroyed 23 of the 31 Shahed explosive drones, of Iranian design, launched with six missiles in the night on several cities in southern Ukraine, including Odessa, where three people were killed. killed.
The Ukrainian army, lacking ammunition and Western aid, faces an
"extremely difficult"
situation , according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's own admission, as the country prepares to commemorate the launch on Saturday, there two years ago, from the Russian assault on Ukraine.