Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said the conditions in the Donbas are “indescribably difficult.”
The EU has also proposed to exclude the Druzhba oil pipeline from the draft embargo on Russian oil due to Hungary's position, Yermak said via Telegram.Hungary has proven to be a stumbling block for the bloc's latest round of punitive measures against Moscow. The sanctions require unanimous support from EU member states.
"For the past 24hrs, seven [Russian] enemy attacks have been repulsed in Donetsk and Luhansk only, one tank and six enemy vehicles have been destroyed. Air defense units destroyed Orlan-10 UAVs. [Russian] enemy has losses in other areas," they added.Russia has demonstrated it is prepared to leverage global food security for its own political aim and then present itself as the reasonable actor and blame the West for failure, according to the latest intelligence update from the U.K.
"The Ukrainian military is facing the most serious challenge it has encountered since the isolation of the Azovstal Plant in Mariupol and may well suffer a significant tactical defeat in the coming days if Severodonetsk falls, although such an outcome is by no means certain, and the Russian attacks may well stall again," analysts at ISW said.
"The key areas of fighting on the frontline are still Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, Bakhmut, Popasna and other cities where the Russian offensive is focused. But our defenses are holding up. It's indescribably difficult there. And I am grateful to all those who withstood this onslaught of the occupiers," he added.Yasuyoshi Chiba | AFP | Getty Images
Russia's defense ministry said on Saturday its troops and allied separatist forces were now in full control of Lyman, the site of a railway junction west of the Siverskyi Donets River in the Donetsk region that neighbors Luhansk.
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