Ukraine front lines 2024
The Visual Journalism Team at BBC reports that the fighting has been raging in Ukraine for two years since Russia’s invasion, with Moscow’s forces making an apparent breakthrough in February after months of virtual stalemate. They write:
Here are the latest developments:
- Ukrainian forces have withdrawn from the eastern town of Avdiivka in Russia’s biggest victory since the fall of Bakhmut in May last year
- Russia has also been launching attacks around villages in the southern Zaporizhzhia region where Ukraine made some gains during its 2023 counter-offensive
- Ukraine has continued its attacks on the Russian fleet in the Black Sea – most recently claiming to have sunk the amphibious ship, the Caesar Kunikov, off the coast of Russian-occupied Crimea
Ukrainian forces were also quick to deploy Western supplied arms such as the Nlaw anti-tank system, which proved highly effective against the Russian advance.
Ukraine front lines from 2022.
By October 2022, the picture had changed dramatically and having failed to take Kyiv, Russia withdrew completely from the north. Since then, little has changed on the ground.
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Russia Sending Untrained Soldiers to Ukraine
Guy Faulconbridge of Reuters reports Russia is pushing back Ukrainian forces and that Putin will create two new armies and 30 formations. He writes:
Russia said on Wednesday its soldiers were pushing Ukrainian forces back and that Moscow would bolster its military by adding two new armies and 30 new formations by the end of this year.
Russia, which invaded Ukraine in 2022, swiftly pulled back some of its forces in the east and south after over-extending but has been slowly advancing after a Ukrainian counteroffensive last year failed to make significant gains. […]
Putin has said Russia will punish Ukraine for the attacks and that he might carve a buffer zone from more Ukrainian territory as defence against attacks by Western-supplied artillery.”The primary task is to guarantee security. There are different methods here, they aren’t easy but we will do this,” Putin told a Kremlin meeting on Wednesday.
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