The President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenskyalerted the Ukrainian population this Friday to the possibility that the Russian Armed Forces “be active” and can carry out new attacks during the days of Christmas.
“They despise Christian values and any value in general. Therefore, pay attention to overhead warning signs. Help each other and always protect yourself,” Zelensky said, according to the news agency. ukrinform.
Zelensky, who held a meeting at the headquarters of the highest control body of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to monitor the military situation on the ground, has also addressed a separate message to Russian citizens, emphasizing that “terror never goes unanswered”.
On the other hand, the Ukrainian president thanked the us congress for passing a $1.7 trillion bill for the next fiscal year that includes about $45 billion in additional military, economic, and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine.
Russian troops continued this Friday trying to break through the Ukrainian lines in the Donetsk regionwithout success according to the Ukrainian military command, which maintains that Russia is already preparing to defend the annexed Crimean peninsula.
The largest number of attacks by Russian forces was recorded in the Donetsk region, where Ukrainian troops repulsed incursions along with a dozen towns and cities, including Bakhmutan important communications hub, reported the General Staff of Ukraine in a report posted on Facebook.
About thirty towns under artillery fire
According to the Ukrainian command, about thirty towns in that region of eastern Ukraine were subjected to artillery fire and tank shelling.
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) noted in its latest daily report that probably the Russian private military company wagner groupof the oligarch Yevgeny Prigozin, intensify its operations in the Bakhmut area to provide success that has eluded the Russian Army in that area.
In the view of ISW analysts, Prigozhin, who is close to the Russian president, Vladimir Putinwould be trying to expand its role in the contest, to achieve its own political objectives.
Although the eastern regions of Ukraine are the main theater of military actions, Russia adopts measures to prevent a Ukrainian offensive on the southern frontwhere last November his troops withdrew from the city of Khersonthe only regional capital he has managed to control since the start of the campaign.
“On the territory of the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea, enemy units are conducting engineering work for defensive positions along the Krasnoperekopsk-Dzhankoy highway,” the Ukrainian General Staff said.
The highway begins in the city of Kransnoperkopsk, it is located on the isthmus of the Crimean peninsula and from there it extends 61 kilometers to Dzhankoy, inside that territory annexed by Russia in 2014, and is key in the hypothetical case that troops break in in it.
And it is that the spirits of the kyiv authorities are on the rise, especially after the surprise visit of the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelensky, to Washington, where he had a triumphant reception and his American counterpart, Joe Biden announced the shipment of Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems to Ukrainewho demanded them a long time ago.
(With information from Europa Press)
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