The war in Ukraine He turns 398 days old this Wednesday. The Donbas is the epicenter of the fighting between the Russian and Ukrainian forces, where Russia continues with offensive operations in and around Bakhmut and along the axis of the Avdiivka-Donetsk city front.
The Wagner Group ensures that the fighting around the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut (east) “has practically destroyed” the Ukrainian Army.
The Government of Russia warns that the suspension of the commitments of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) signed with the United States also affects notifications, so Moscow no longer feels obliged to inform Washington of missile launch tests.
On February 24, 2022, the President of Russia Vladimir Putinordered the Russian offensive in the country in what he called a “special military operation”.
Since then, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that about 20 million people have fled Ukraine, since the beginning of the Russian military offensive, which he considers to be the fastest exodus in Europe since World War II. That is, more than 48.6% of the population –estimated at almost 41 million in 2021– would have left Ukrainian territory.
Situation of the war in Ukraine on March 29, 2023 / Map: EA According to him last report of Institute Study of War (ISW) (1) stresses that Russian forces “continue offensive operations in and around Bakhmut and along the axis of the Avdiivka-Donetsk city front“.
On the other hand, the ISW also claims that Russian forces continue to carry out “ground attacks along the Kupyansk-Svatove-Kreminna line“.
Also, the think tank American claims that Ukrainian forces “they carry out ground attacks located in the Zaporiyi oblast“.
The founder and owner of the Wagner Group security company, the Russian oligarch Yevgeni Prigozhin, stressed on Wednesday that the fighting around the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut (east) “has practically destroyed” the Ukrainian Army.
“The battle for Bakhmut has practically destroyed the Ukrainian Army,” he said, before adding that “foreign units” are operating within the Ukrainian Armed Forces, according to the Russian news agency TASS.
Thus, he has stressed that the offensive against Bakhmut was planned in the summer of 2022 after the capture of Popasna and has emphasized that the forces of the Wagner Group “are advancing systematically on this path.”
Prigozhin’s words came hours after UK intelligence services stressed that Donetsk’s Bakhmut industrial zone “probably remains in dispute” after pro-Russian authorities in the region claimed that Russian forces and mercenaries from the Wagner Group had taken control of it.
The Russian Government has warned this Wednesday that the suspension of the commitments of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) signed with the United States also affects notifications, so Moscow no longer feels obliged to inform Washington of missile launch tests.
“There will be no more notifications”, confirmed the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergei Riabkov, who has considered “all” aspects linked to an agreement that in recent years has been key to calming mutual misgivings between the powers of the Cold War.
In this way, Riabkov explained, there will be no exchange of data and no inspections will be facilitated, according to the Russian news agency Interfax.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced in February the suspension of New START amid escalating political tensions over the war in Ukraine. Without this treaty, the arsenals of the world’s two largest nuclear powers are technically not limited, something unprecedented since the 1970s.
Flow of refugees from Ukraine to other countries as of March 27, 2023 / Map: EA The number of refugees who have crossed the border from Ukraine into the rest of Europe it continues to grow since the start of the war in Ukraine, unleashed by order of Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 24.
He United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that more than 19.7 million people have fled Ukraine, since the beginning of the Russian military offensive, which he considers to be the fastest exodus in Europe since World War II. Until the 48% of the population –estimated at almost 41 million in 2021– would have left Ukrainian territory.
According to the latest UNHCR data (2), 19,952,229 people have left Ukrainian territory as of March 27, 2023. By countries, 10.452.014 Ukrainian refugees have already arrived Poland, 2.852.395 a Russia (October 3, 2022), 2.414.914 a Hungary, 2.153.896 a Romania (March 26th), 1.266.790 a Slovakia (March 26th), 795.585 a Moldavia (March 26) and 16.705 a belarus (March 21st).
The High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that more than 8.1 million Ukrainian refugees have already been registered on European territory, and that five they would be in a situation of Temporary Protection, due to the Russian invasion of his country.
References
- (1) Institute for Study of War (ISW).
- (2) United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).