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Zelenskyy decreases Russia’s attempt to win the top of the battlefield before the United States maintains that its army retains “the occupier”.
Russia has achieved gains in the Donetsk region of Ukraine before the meeting of the high issues of President Vladimir Putin with his American counterpart Donald Trump in Alaska, which raises fears that he has increased his lever effect in the midst of talks aimed at ending the war.
Before Friday Anchorage summitThe Moscow army struck the industrial heart of Ukraine, trying to grasp the Flashpoint city of Pokrovsk, a key motorway and a rail junction in the east of Donetsk, after repeated attempts to violate its defensive line during the week.
While Putin and Trump were preparing to meet, the Deepstate battlefield analysis site said Pokrovsk was partially surrounded. In recent days, the Russian forces would have seized the village of Yablunivka and the colony of Oleksandrohrad – both in Donetsk.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who rejected Putin requests That Kyiv withdraws from the remaining 30% of Donetsk which he still controls, played the Russian advances, saying on X that his forces “against” and “increased the pressure” on “the occupant”.
“The Russian army continues to undergo significant losses in its attempts to obtain more favorable political positions for Russian leaders at the meeting in Alaska. We understand this plan and inform our partners of the real situation,” he said.
Reporting Kyiv, Charles Stratford of Al Jazeera said that “small groups of Russian forces” had “made gaps in the Ukrainian defensive lines in this area, taking around 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) of territory”.
Russia annexed illegally Donetsk in 2022, with Luhansk, who both form the region eastern Donbas, Kherson and Zaporizhia.
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Friday, in other fights, Russia launched a ballistic missile in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine, by killing one and injuring at least another person, according to the regional governor Serhiy Lysak.
The city of Dnipro is a logistics center for Ukrainian forces, and the Dnipropetrovsk region borders the combat zone and is regularly bombed by Russian forces.
Also Friday, Ukraine soldiers said they had hit the Syzran oil refinery in the Samara region of Russia, one of the largest on the network of the oil company Rosneft, in a night attack.
The regional governor of Samara said that a drone attack had caused a fire in an “industrial enterprise” not specified in its region, but that it had been extinct quickly.
The Ukrainian army also said that it had struck the Caspian port of Olya on Thursday in the Astrakhan region in Russia, hitting a ship that had transported drone and Iranian ammunition to Russia.
Faced with regular Russian missile and drone attacks, Ukraine has led most of its deep strikes against Russian oil refineries and “storage facilities” not specified this year, according to data from the new general stage published on Friday.
The Ukrainian army has not confirmed if it used drones, as usual, for its last two long -term attacks. He says that her deep strike campaign aims to degrade the capacity of Russia to conduct war on a large scale that she launched in February 2022.
Some 535 Russian and missile drones rained in Ukraine during the week from August 7 to 13. Ukraine intercepted a little less than two thirds of them, and the forces of Moscow launched eight missiles against Ukraine, five of which crossed its defenses.
