Russia has been inching west in Donetsk, the eastern front lines seeing the heaviest clashes between Russian and Ukrainian troops.
A new map appears to show Russian forces closing in on Ukraine's positions in the heart of fighting in the country's Donetsk region, as Ukrainian sources sound the alarm over Russia's advances on the eastern front.Popular Ukrainian war-tracking blog, DeepState, said on Tuesday that Russian forces were trying to surround two Ukrainian battalions, belonging to the 31st Mechanized Brigade, west of the Donetsk city of Avdiivka.
Yuriy Butusov, a Ukrainian journalist and military observer, said on Wednesday that the situation for Ukrainian troops east of Pokrovsk was 'critically difficult.'Russian forces advanced 6 kilometers, or just under 4 miles, toward Pokrovsk and the town of Myrnohrad—just east of Pokrovsk—in the past seven days, Butusov said. Once Russian forces enter Myrnohrad, they can fire directly onto Pokrovsk, he added.The independent U.S.
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