2024-06-26 19:30:39
The Ukrainians are slowly pushing the Russian occupiers out of the town of Vovchansk, however there are fierce road battles for each block, each home.
That’s, somewhat about each destroyed destroy that remained of the home. Oleksandr Motornyj, a cameraman for Ukrainian TV 1+1, went to the town final week and noticed the utter destruction. In line with him, not a single wall is standing intact and no home has a roof, not to mention home windows.
The Russians attacked the town throughout their offensive within the Kharkiv area on Could 10 this yr, and inside days the Ministry of Protection in Moscow introduced that Russian forces managed greater than half of Vovchansk.
The Institute for the Research of Battle, which displays the preventing with the assistance of satellites and different expertise, says nevertheless that the Ukrainian military is advancing north of the Vovcha River. The Ukrainians initially stopped the enemy’s advance there, however now they’re pushing them from the northern financial institution. “You may see from the footage that Ukrainian troopers are controlling Soborna trída (Sobor means cathedral in Ukrainian – editor’s notice) within the heart of the town,” the institute reported. Till just a few days in the past, the Russians had management over this a part of the town.
“The enemy sends small teams, so we stand towards them with handguns. We’re generally fifty meters away from them, generally even nearer,” one of many commanders of the Ukrainian 57th Infantry Brigade, which is preventing in Vovchansk, advised 1+1.
On the identical time, the Ukrainian command corrected the experiences that the defenders surrounded a number of hundred occupiers within the manufacturing unit for the manufacturing of constructing supplies.
“We’re blocking dozens of occupiers there, not lots of,” mentioned Yuriy Povch, spokesman for the protection forces within the Kharkiv area. Forbes journal unfold the information concerning the encirclement of lots of of Russians to the world just a few days in the past.
Russian artillery is firing from throughout the border, which is simply 4 kilometers from Vovčansk. “We destroy their howitzers, however they shortly exchange them with new ones,” mentioned a member of the 57th Infantry Brigade.
Russian battle bloggers on the Telegram social community declare that the Russian army has dropped an enormous FAB-3000 gliding bomb weighing 3.3 tons on Vovchansk in latest days. The Ukrainians didn’t remark. Moscow mentioned a Russian airplane additionally dropped the bomb final week on the village of Lipcy west of Vovchansk, the place Ukrainian troops are additionally slowly advancing. The Institute for the Research of Battle wrote that the FAB-3000 did land on Lypce, however didn’t straight hit any goal.
Deputy Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliamentary Committee for Nationwide Safety, Protection and Intelligence, Yehor Chernev, referred to as on the allies to permit the military to assault with Western weapons on Russian territory deeper than simply twenty kilometers from the border with the Kharkiv area. In line with him, it’s essential to destroy Russian army airfields and bombers attacking Vovchansk and Ukrainian positions.
Vovčansk had lower than twenty thousand inhabitants earlier than the battle. The Russians occupied it within the first hours of the invasion in February 2022, however then with no combat. Within the autumn of the identical yr, through the Ukrainian counter-offensive within the Kharkiv area, they withdrew from the town. However now Vovchansk is completely devastated, just like Bakhmut or Avdijivka.
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