Ukraine-Russian Crisis

Ukrainian Forces Recapture 20% Of Region Lost In Sievierodonetsk

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3 years ago

Jun 4, 2022.

Benard Joseph

Ukrainian Forces Recapture 20% Of Region Lost In Sievierodonetsk.
The war that Western governments believed Russian planned to win within a few hours of its February invasion entered its 100th day on Friday.

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Sergiy Gaidai, governor of Luhansk province, said that Ukrainian troops had retaken 20% of the territory they had lost in Sievierodonetsk

Gaidai said that Russian forces were attacking and advancing upon Ukrainian positions for hours, only to be driven back by defenders who were not injured.

“This is how they are moving forward, step-by-step because, with artillery, aircraft, mortars, they are simply destroying everything,” he said.

“But as soon as we have enough Western long-range weapons, we will push their artillery away from our positions. And then, believe me, the Russian infantry, they will just run.”

Since the invasion, Russian forces have swarmed into the city in an attempt to capture it to achieve its stated aim of controlling the entire Luhansk province.

On Thursday, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukrainian forces have had some recent successes in the region.

Sergiy Gaidai, governor of Luhansk province, told national television that Ukrainian troops had retaken 20% of the territory they had lost in Sievierodonetsk.

It was “not realistic” the city would fall in the next two weeks even though Russian reinforcements were being deployed, he said on Friday.

“As soon as we have enough Western long-range weapons, we will push their artillery away from our positions. And then, believe me, the Russian infantry, they will just run,” said Gaidai.

The war that Western governments believed Russian planned to win within a few hours of its February invasion entered its 100th day on Friday.

Thousands have died, millions have been uprooted from their homes and the global economy disrupted since Moscow’s forces were driven back from Kyiv in the first months of the conflict.

Russian President Vladimir Putin denied on Friday that Moscow was preventing Ukrainian ports from exporting grains, blaming rising global food prices on the West.

“We are now seeing attempts to shift the responsibility for what is happening on the world food market, the emerging problems in this market onto Russia,” he said on national television.

He said the best solution would be for Western sanctions on Russia’s ally Belarus to be lifted and for Ukraine to export grain through that country.

Ukrainian officials are counting on advanced missile systems that the United States and Britain recently pledged to swing the war in their favour, and Ukrainian troops have already begun training on them.

While Ukraine’s resistance has forced Putin to narrow his immediate goal to conquering the entire Donbas region, Ukrainian officials said he remains intent on subduing the whole country.

“Putin’s main goal is the destruction of Ukraine. He is not backing down from his goals, despite the fact that Ukraine won the first stage of this full-scale war,” Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar told national television on Friday.

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Moscow has poured troops and materiel into the battle for Sievierodonetsk, which Russia must overrun to take all of Luhansk, one of two provinces that comprise the eastern Donbas region that the Kremlin has stated it intends to capture.

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