‘The situation in the Kupiansk and Lyman areas worsened significantly in recent days’
claimed that its troops were “improving their positions” along much of the front line in eastern Ukraine and that Kyiv’s counteroffensive had “failed completely”, as the industrial town of Avdiivka in Donetsk region held out against a fifth day of heavy attacks.“What is happening now along the entire contact line is called ‘active defence’. And our troops are improving their positions in almost this whole area,” said Mr Putin on Sunday.
“Overnight, the Russian military massively shelled the community, destroyed the hospital’s electricity substation and hit its room for sterilising medical equipment. The facade was hit but all the medics were unhurt, they were in the basement,” he told Ukrainian television. In recent weeks, Russia has launched its own attacks near the town of Lyman, 55km north of Bakhmut, and near Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region, a further 100km to the north.
Washington has presented satellite images that allegedly show cargo from an arms depot in North Korea being moved by ship and train towards Russia’s border with Ukraine.
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