Kiev, Ukraine (AP) – Russia said on Saturday that its forces captured the village of Berezhibka in its latest breakthrough in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine and its troops captured the village of Berezhibka in the latest breakthrough in Ukraine's defence.
Ukrainian officials did not immediately comment.
Russia's much larger army carried out a sustained year of campaigning along the Eastern Front, gradually loosening the brief, tired Ukrainian army's grip on its bases as the war approaches four years later this month.
Although it is only a small settlement, the capture of Berezhibka would advance the sweep of Russia across the Donetsk region, where Moscow is spending a lot of troops and equipment, but paying dividends to the Kremlin. Offensively, Russian forces destroy the settlement with 3,000 pounds (1,300 km) of glide bombs, artillery, missiles and drone brute forces, and send infantry units to attack exposed defenders.
Russia is trying to control all parts of Donetsk and neighboring Luhansk, which make up the Donbas Industrial Area of Ukraine.
Kiev's recent losses in eastern Ukraine coincided with uncertainty about whether the US would continue to provide important military aid. US President Donald Trump said he prioritizes American interests and would soon meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week to negotiate a peace deal against Ukraine.
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Ukrainian President Voldy Mie Zelensky could not rule out the possibility that Europe might “say no to Europe on issues that threaten it,” and said, “the creation of military forces.” It said that the time has come to come. Europe.
Other developments have shown that radiation levels at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the site of the world's worst nuclear accident, will not increase the day after a warhead-armed drone hits the shells of shuttered plants in the Kiev region. That was it. To Ukrainian provincial institutions for exclusion zone management.
The United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency said on Friday that the strike, which struck a hole in the structure and caused a temporary fire, did not violate the plant's internal containment shell.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said 40 Ukrainian drones were shot down overnight on Saturday in four regions, western and southwest Russia. No victims have been reported.
Moscow sent 70 drones to Ukraine overnight on Saturday, Ukrainian officials said. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, 33 drones were destroyed, 37 were lost, and choked presumably electronically.
