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On April 18, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine claimed that the 2nd phase of the Russian operation in the Donbas had begun. In spite of this, Moscow had already announced the opening of the second ph…
Courtesy of https://southfront.org/
On April 18, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine claimed that the 2nd phase of the Russian operation in the Donbas had begun. In spite of this, Moscow had already announced the opening of the second phase at the end of March. So far, the Pentagon did not mention any new phase in its military briefing on Ukraine as well.
While Kiev is trying to define the exact date and the main direction of the Russian major offensive in the Donbass region, Russian and LDPR forces steadily increase pressure on the AFU positions on all the front lines. So far, with slow successes. Russian missile strikes are pounding the territory of Ukraine.
In turn the AFU are strengthening their positions in the region, waiting for new supplies of foreign weapons to reach the front lines. Over the past day, the US government has delivered four flights to the region with military aid for Ukraine. All of them are part of Biden’s $800 million aid package.
18 Howitzer artillery systems from the arsenals of the US ground forces and marines are being sent to Ukraine. The joint training sessions will be held in one of the countries of Eastern Europe.
Washington continues to support the AFU, as it has done for the past ten years, just in a more open manner and on a larger scale.
Major developments took place on the front lines near Izyum. In recent days, several villages to the northwest of Izyum in the Kharkiv region have come under the control of Russian forces.
While Kiev officials are claiming the alleged encirclement of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation near Izyum, the villages of Borovaya, Podliman, Yuzhnaya Zhuravka, Nizhny Zoleny were taken out the AFU control in the last week. Clashes continue on the Peski-Radkovskie front line.
The territories to the east of the Oskol water reservoir are of strategic importance as they secure the rear for Russian and LPR troops advancing in the Severodonetsk — Lisichansk region, as well as strengthen Russian positions near Izyum.
