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Russia intensifies attacks Ukrainian drone base out of action after massive strikes Kiev announces tactical retreat in Donetsk Peoples Republic
The Russian military has carried out several strikes that destroyed Ukrainian warehouses storing attack drones, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said.
In a statement on Sunday, the ministry noted that the operation involved combined attacks by Russian tactical warplanes, missiles, and artillery. The strike targeted UAV hangars at the Kamenka airfield, about 20km from the Ukrainian city of Dnepr (known as Dnepropetrovsk in Russia) in the southeast of the country, it added.
Sukhoi Su-25 attack aircrafts. © Sputnik / Viktor Tolochko
The ministry did not elaborate on the number of drones destroyed in the attack.
On Saturday, Ukrainian media reported explosions in the suburbs of Dnepr, with local officials later saying the attack targeted an unidentified infrastructure facility.
A Russian serviceman holds an Igla man-portable surface-to-air missile system before firing toward Ukrainian positions in the course of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, at the unknown location. © RIA Novosti/Sputnik
The Russian Defense Ministry also said that warehouses storing various types of air munitions and equipment at the Priluki and Starokonstantinov airfields, in the central and western parts of Ukraine, respectively, had also been hit. The temporary deployment areas of foreign mercenaries were also targeted, ministry officials added.
Earlier this month, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said that Moscow planned to intensify strikes on Ukrainian logistics hubs and warehouses where Western-supplied weapons are stored.
Meanwhile, Ukraine continues to carry out drone strikes, sometimes involving dozens of aircraft, against Russian targets, particularly energy facilities, including oil depots and refineries. Other strikes often target residential buildings and critical civilian infrastructure.
In light of this, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow could “at some point” establish a “cordon sanitaire”in territories controlled by Ukraine to deter further strikes on targets in Russia.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has knowingly deceived the public about the true extent of his country’s military losses in its conflict with Russia, the Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing sources. Zelensky did so to offset panic amid a struggling mobilization campaign, the paper claimed.
In February, after months of silence on Ukrainian casualties, Zelensky claimed that 31,000 troops had been killed in the two years since the start of the conflict, without disclosing the numbers of those wounded.
Russia, on the other hand, claims that Kiev has suffered devastating losses during the conflict. Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has estimated Ukraine’s losses at nearly half a million troops.
Ukrainian military units have pulled back from three villages in Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic as Moscow’s forces continue to push westward from the regions’ capital city, Kiev’s top general has conceded.
Ukrainian troops retreated from the villages of Berdychi and Semyonovka, to the northwest of Avdeevka, and from Novomikhailovka, to the southwest of Donetsk, commander-in-chief General Aleksandr Syrsky said on Sunday in a Telegram post. The outnumbered Ukrainians gave ground to preserve “the lives and health of our defenders,” he added.
“The most difficult situation is in the Pokrovsk and Kurakhovo directions, where fierce battles continue,” Syrsky said. “The enemy has engaged up to four brigades in these directions, and is trying to develop an offensive west of Avdeevka and Maryinka.”
After capturing the Ukrainian stronghold of Avdeevka in February, Russian units have made steady battlefield gains. They are now firmly in control of the battlefield situation and are steadily pushing back Ukrainian forces, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said last Monday. According to Moscow, Kiev’s forces have lost more than 8,000 soldiers in just the past week.
In recent days, Russian troops also liberated the town of Bogdanovka, located near the strategic town of Chasov Yar in the north of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). Chasov Yar sits on high ground, and taking it would give Russian units a strong vantage point from which to attack other key areas held by the Ukrainians.
The Ukrainian general acknowledged on Sunday that Russian forces are attacking along “the entire front line,” spanning more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles). On Friday he told his country’s Western backers that Kiev’s forces face a “difficult operational and strategic situation, which has a tendency to get worse.”
The administration of US President Joe Biden blamed Ukraine’s battlefield setbacks, including the fall of Avdeevka, on opposition from Republican lawmakers whose reluctance to further fund war without political concession he dismissed as “inaction” led to crippling ammunition shortages. Biden vowed to rush more aid to Kiev after Congress approved $61 billion in additional funding last week.
However, Moscow said that no Western weapons can change the dynamics on the front lines. Some US officials told Politico that the White House is also not convinced that the latest American assistance will be enough for Ukraine to prevail in the conflict with Russia.
Source Telegram/X/Reuters/RT/TASS
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