Sixty-four days after the launch of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the online daily Oukraïnska Pravda draws the sad toll of the conflict. “The regions of Kherson, Donetsk and Luhansk are still suffering from the occupation. Mariupol is under a terrible siege. The Russians fire on Kharkiv and Mykolaiv. In the south, the fighting is getting tougher. Russian missiles are increasingly targeting Odessa, and explosions have been reported in Transnistria [une région séparatiste moldave]presumably provocations.”
In the coming days, warns the weekly Oukraïnsky Tyjden, Moscow’s forces should redouble their efforts to break through, especially in the Donbass. According to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the Russian occupiers have indeed deployed up to 500 vehicles and equipment near Izium, and “the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation”, General Valery Gerasimov, “would have arrived on the spot” to command the attack.
The Ukrainian General Staff further confirms that “the military of the Russian Federation is preparing a new offensive in the Kherson region”, reports news site Obozrevatel. More “the vigorous defense and the counterattacks