Russia is insisting on ceasefire strategy due to Ukraine gaining a foothold in Dnieper

Russia insists on Ukrainian abandonment strategy Along the front line, Kiev tries to gain a foothold on the left bank of the Dnieper, where it maintains a beachhead.

“Russia is preparing for war for decades And have accumulated many weapons,” Ukraine’s former Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar admitted this Sunday on her Telegram channel, according to whom the Russian military aims to “exhaust us as much as possible.”

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According to Maliyar, this pressure is deliberate Prevent Ukraine from building ammunition stockpiles, Repair your damaged war equipment and reduce army morale.

He warned, “They act so that we do not have time to recover. Meanwhile (…) they are preparing the next phase of offensive action.”

he added this “The occupiers will make every possible effort to create pressure.” Reach Avdiivka (Ukrainian stronghold in the Donetsk region) and Kupyansk (in the Kharkiv region).

“For them, it is not so important from a military point of view, but for propaganda purposes and moral support for their army,” he speculated, noting that the Russians are advancing in the east of the country. Lives “at the same pace as autumn”, Despite the fact that the Ukrainian military fiercely resists.

To weaken the Ukrainian army, he indicated, “the Russians use small attack group tactics” similar to those used by the Russian mercenary group Wagner, because Ukraine spends practically the same amount Supplies supplied to repel an attack by a smaller group rather than to repel a larger group.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian troops need urgent reinforcements, Oleksiy Tarasenko, commander of the Ukrainian army’s fifth assault brigade, told public television today.

,Soldiers eagerly await new additional aidBecause in many areas, in many units, the personnel situation is quite serious and the quality of the soldiers coming in is not what is desired,” he said.

He pointed out that the average age of Ukrainian soldiers is more than 40 years old, “Older people with many problems” Health and poor military preparedness.

Late last year, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported that the military had asked for 500,000 people to be drafted into the armed forces, but so far The new law has not been approved by Parliament Mobilization that will give the green light to this campaign.

Battle on the left bank of the Dnieper

For its part, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that during the day the army had dispersed Eight Ukrainian attacks in three sectors of the front: in Kupyansk, in Liman (in Luhansk region) and in the Donetsk sector.

In turn, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army indicated that over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Army repelled enemy attacks in Sinkivka (Kupyansk sector) and four in Lugansk and Donetsk, while three in Avdiivka. The city that Russia has been trying to surround for three monthsHe repulsed about twenty attacks.

However, one of the sectors with the highest combat intensity is Kherson, on the left bank of the Dnieper RiverWhere Ukrainian forces managed to establish a beachhead and resist dense Russian fire.

“We are trying to consolidate and expand the beachhead, and the enemy is trying to knock out our units. Almost no houses there remain intact., The cannons of both sides work. In addition, the enemy conducted intensive shelling of the area,” Ukrainian Southern Command spokeswoman Natalia Gumenyuk told Ukrainian television.

He said, in this sector of the front, Russia may have About 10,000 soldiers were concentratedWith the aim of maintaining control over this area.