Kyiv said that Russia wants to seize Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region by May 9 when Moscow marks Victory Day.
Russian forces have continued to attack the town of Chasiv Yar but have made no recent advances around the key battleground in the Donetsk region, according to the Institute for the Study of War , whose map shows the latest state of play on the front line.Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky told NBC that Russia would try to capture the town, located just west of Russian-occupied Bakhmut, by Victory Day on May 9, which marks the Soviet Union's role in the victory over Nazi Germany.
The ISW map shows how battles are continuing there as well as southeast of the town, near Ivanivske, Klishchiivka and Shumy, while Kyiv insisted it was resisting Russian forces.'Chasiv Yar is holding on. The enemy is pressing, but the situation is fully controlled by units of the Defense Forces. There is no enemy in the city,' said Nazar Voloshyn, the spokesman of the Ukrainian Khortytsia OSU unit.
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