Moscow, Russia – The Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday that its forces are making progress on all fronts in Ukraine.
Violent battles are taking place between Russian and Ukrainian forces around the Pokrovsk region.
General Valery Gerasimov, Chief of Staff of the Russian Armed Forces in the “Special Military Operation”, said that forces are making progress in the eastern Donetsk region, which is the focal point of the conflict, and to the west in the Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
The Ministry of Defense quoted Gerasimov as saying: “Our forces in the area of the special military operation are advancing in almost all directions”.
He added, using the Soviet-era name of the city of Pokrovsk: “The fiercest fighting is taking place in the direction of Krasnoarmeysk, where the enemy is trying, by any means and without any regard to losses, to stop our advance and regain the initiative to no avail”.
He also said that the Ukrainian army “deployed the best trained and most capable combat units, and withdrew them from other areas”. This facilitates the advance of our forces in other sectors.”
Gerasimov said that Russian forces are also making progress in controlling Kubyansk.
It is a largely destroyed city in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine, and on Yambil in the east.
Ukrainian denial
On the other hand, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russian forces had achieved little success on the front lines in their latest movements.
A Ukrainian military commander said this week that his forces had repelled a Russian advance near Pokrovsk.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for a Ukrainian unit near Kubyansk said on Wednesday that a Russian attempt to invade the town ended with the capture of a number of Russian soldiers.
