Russians prepare to resume offensive on Sloviansk

DENYS KARLOVSKYI – Saturday, 21 May perhaps 2022, 18:38

MAP OF HOSTILITIES IN DONBAS. Image: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Russian occupying forces are getting ready to resume offensive functions from Izium to Sloviansk.

Supply: night summary of the Typical Workers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for 21 Might

Quotation: “The occupying forces are preparing to resume their offensive on the Sloviansk entrance. All through the working day, the enemy carried out artillery shelling in the locations of Velyka Komyshuvakha and Dovhenke in Kharkiv Oblast.

On the Slobozhansk entrance, the enemy continues to perform hostilities in purchase to maintain the occupied frontiers. In purchase to stop our troops from achieving the condition border, they launched air strikes and fired artillery at the parts of Chornohlazivka, Prudianka, Dementiivka and Ternova.”

Aspects: Russian troops are also planning for an offensive on the Lyman entrance.

On the Donetsk front, the enemy is striving to split via the Ukrainian troops’ line of defence and get to the administrative border of Luhansk Oblast.

Supported by aircraft and artillery, they carried out assault operations in the parts of Lypove, Vasylivka, Marinka and Novomykhailivka in Donetsk Oblast, but without the need of achievement.

The Russians introduced air and artillery strikes on civilian targets in Bakhmut and Vrubovka. An air strike was also introduced on Mykilskyi in the Volnovakha district.

The aggressor did not have out offensive operations on the Novopavlivsk and Zaporizhzhia fronts. Civilian infrastructure was shelled in the areas of Vremivka in Donetsk Oblast, and Olhivske, Zatyshshya, Guliaypole, Orikhiv, Novodanylivka and Kamianske in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

On the Pivdennyi Buh, Siversk, Volyn and Polissia fronts, the condition has not altered significantly.

In Chernihiv Oblast, Russian invaders fired on the settlements of Semenivka, Bleshnia and Hirsk. Missile strikes were separately released on targets in the Poltava and Zhytomyr locations.

Ukrainian intelligence continues to file that the Russian command is carrying out covert mobilisation to rotate troops that have endured losses for the duration of the hostilities against the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Obligatory measures to enlist adult men from the quickly occupied territories of Ukraine are also continuing.

Tale carries on

Less than the slogan of “nationalisation”, Russian invaders are looting the residence of telecommunications firms in the occupied territories of the southern oblasts of Ukraine.

Background:

•     In its early morning summary, the Normal Personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine documented the aggressor’s options to attack Sloviansk from the east – from the facet of Siversk on the border of the Donetsk and Luhansk locations.

•     As of the morning of 21 May perhaps, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have killed 28,500 Russian soldiers and ruined 1,278 tanks, 3,116 armoured overcome motor vehicles and 462 drones.