Analysts warned that delays in U.S. military aid meant Kiev would struggle to counter the Russian offensive, which left more civilians dead across Ukraine on Sunday.
A man was killed Sunday when a Russian drone collided with a truck he was driving in the Sumy region, local prosecutors said. Elsewhere, shelling hit an apartment building in the Donetsk region, killing a 67-year-old woman, Governor Vadim Filashkin said.
Officials in the Kharkiv region also announced on Sunday that they had recovered the bodies of a 61-year-old woman and a 68-year-old man who were killed in a Russian airstrike the previous day. The Ukrainian Air Force announced on Sunday that 10 Russian Shahid-class drones were shot down overnight over the Kharkov region.
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Meanwhile, Moscow-based leader Vladimir Sardo said on Sunday that two civilians had been killed in shelling in the Russian-occupied Kherson region. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Ukrainian drones were also reported over Russia’s Krasnodar and Belgorod regions, as well as over the Black Sea.
The news came as Washington-based think tank the Institute for the Study of War warned that delays in Western military aid would increasingly hamper Ukraine’s ability to push back Russian advances.
A Ukrainian serviceman from the Azov Brigade, known by the call sign “Chaos,” smokes a cigarette as he waits for the order to open fire in a dugout about a kilometer from front-line Russian troops in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on April 12. . , 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)
As the Ukraine war enters its third year and a key U.S. aid package for Kiev is pending in Congress, Russia is stepping up attacks across eastern Ukraine, using its superiority in firepower and manpower. Satellite-guided glide bombs, dropped from planes from a safe distance, are increasingly being used to attack Ukraine’s military, which suffers from a shortage of troops and ammunition.
ISW said in its report that the Russian military is prioritizing grinding and tactical gains with operational-level efforts focused on the cities of Lyman, Chasiv Yar, and Pokrovsk.
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“Russian military command likely assesses that due to delays or a permanent end to U.S. military aid, the Ukrainian military will not be able to defend against current and future Russian offensive operations,” the think tank said. Ta.
Ukraine’s military commander, General Oleksandr Shirushkyi, said on Saturday that the battlefield situation in Ukraine in the eastern industrial zone was “deteriorating” as the warming climate allowed Russian forces to launch new attacks in some sections of the more than 620-mile stretch. “It has gotten significantly worse in the last few days.” long front.
In an update on the messaging app Telegram, Shirushkyi said that Russian forces were “actively attacking” Ukrainian military positions near the cities of Lyman, Bakhmut and Pokrovsk, and that the dry, warm spring weather He said they began launching tank attacks as it became easier for large vehicles to pass through. Navigating previously muddy terrain.
