Russia Ukraine War, Russia Accelerates Eastern Offensive !
Russia Ukraine War, Russia Accelerates Eastern Offensive !
Longstanding strongpoints of Ukraine’s defense, in the east have come under intense attack in recent days, according to the Ukrainian Army and Western military analysts.
That Ukrainian soldiers still hold the trench mazes and fortifications in two suburban towns, Avdiivka and Pisky, on the edge of the city of Donetsk is a testament to the value, of their dug-in positions in the east. Ukraine’s strong defensive positions, have slowed the Russian Army’s advance to a crawl, with only two large cities, Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk, and a few dozen miles of territory changing hands, despite thousands of soldiers killed on both sides.
It was unclear exactly why assaults, on the fortifications have been intensifying, and the assaults are an exception to a general, tapering off of Russian attacks in the eastern Donbas region, which had been the focus of the war for months. Some military analysts believe, that the relative lull has been partly a result of Russian forces, diverting to the south to fend off a Ukrainian counteroffensive there.
The two towns, mostly deserted and destroyed, are hardly big prizes to capture, but if they were to fall, that could ease Russian advances toward the three large cities in the Donetsk region, remaining under Ukrainian control, Bakhmut, Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.
The Ukrainian army and paramilitary groups, built the fortifications in the two towns during the eight years of low-intensity war, after Russia’s 2014 military intervention in Ukraine to prop up a separatist region, the Donetsk People’s Republic. They are now among Ukraine’s easternmost positions.
Weaving through abandoned factories and mines, taking advantage of root cellars in country homes, and using swamps as natural barriers, the defensive lines there have withstood countless assaults. After failing to flank Avdiivka, Russia began direct tank assaults this week, according to the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based research organization.
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