The Russian army stepped up its operations and redeployed its forces to 3 southern cities of Ukraine, and also continued to strike at the positions of Ukrainian forces and military infrastructure in order to liberate the lands of Donbass, and Kyiv continues to receive Western support and military equipment.
In recent events, Russian forces launched heavy rocket attacks on the Ukrainian Kyiv and Chernigov regions, which were not attacked for several weeks, while Ukrainian officials announced an operation to liberate the occupied region in the south of the country.
The governor of the Kyiv region reported in Telegram that residential areas in the Vyshgorod district were shelled from the territory of Belarus early yesterday morning.
This comes after British military intelligence reported that the 49th battalion of the Russian army, stationed on the western bank of the Dnieper River, now looks very weak, adding that Kherson is effectively isolated from other Russian-occupied lands.
For its part, the British Ministry of Defense said that the counter-offensive launched by Ukraine is gaining momentum in the southern city of Kherson, which is controlled by Russia.
“It is highly likely that Ukrainian forces have built a bridge south of the Lingolitz River, which forms the northern border of the Russian-occupied city of Kherson,” the Twitter circular reads.
Before that, senior adviser to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that huge Russian military reinforcements were being sent towards Kherson, Melitopol and Zaporozhye.
He added that Russian troops had seized the second largest power plant in Ukraine, noting that Moscow was conducting a “wide redeployment” of its forces in three southern regions.
liberation of Russian cities
The head of Ukraine’s breakaway Donetsk region, Denis Pushlin, stressed that the time had come to “liberate Russian cities” such as Kyiv, Chernihiv, Poltava, Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Zaporozhye and Lutsk, he said.
“Today, the time has come once again to liberate Russian cities founded by the Russian people, such as Kyiv-Chernihiv, Poltava, Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Zaporozhye and Lutsk,” the pro-Moscow leader said in a statement posted on his Telegram. channel.
It is noteworthy that Russia now controls the entire Luhansk region, while simultaneously seeking to capture Donetsk, and since March last year, Moscow announced the start of the second phase of its military operation in Ukraine, focusing on the east of the country. Russian forces seek to control the entire Donbas basin in order to open an east-south land corridor in Crimea, which Russia annexed to its territory in 2014.
Russian-American contacts to resolve the prisoner crisis
U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said the United States had made an “important” offer to Russia regarding the two U.S. prisoners it was holding, and that he would speak to his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, for the first time since Russia’s military operation in Ukraine.
Blinken told reporters that the expected phone conversation “in the coming days” with Lavrov “would not be about talks on Ukraine” but about American prisoners in Russia and the resumption of Ukrainian grain exports.
“I intend to raise an issue that is a priority for us: the release of Paul Whelan and Britney Grainer, who were illegally detained and should be allowed to return to their country,” Blinken added.
He continued: “A few weeks ago we submitted a proposal to facilitate the release” of American detainees, and he did not want to go into details about what the American proposal was.
America supports the restoration of Ukraine
The United States of America allocates 500 million dollars for the reconstruction and development of the war in Ukraine.
The bank said in a statement that the United States will make a $500 million contribution to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s Crisis Response Fund, underscoring its strong commitment to supporting Ukraine through the World Bank’s Resilience and Livelihoods Program.
Alexia Latorteu, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Trade and Development, said: “This contribution confirms our support for the people of Ukraine in defending their country from Russia’s unjustified war, which has worsened food security and increased energy prices around the world, especially in developing countries. . countries.
