Russia confirmed that there was taken two cities in eastern Ukraineat a time when, according to data from open sources, Moscow’s forces are advancing at their fastest pace in at least a year, and with several signs that the conflict is attracting new actors like North Korea.
The war in Ukraine, which began two and a half years ago, is entering its most dangerous phaseAccording to Russian analysts, as Moscow’s forces advance, North Korea sends troops to Russia and the West wonders how the conflict will end.
Russia said its forces had taken control of the city of Selidove, which had a population of 20 thousand inhabitants before the war and which had been the target of continued attacks over the past week.
Russian Defense Minister Andrei Beloúsov also congratulated the 114th Russian motorized rifle brigade for taking Hirnik, which before the war had more than 10 thousand inhabitants and is located about 12 km from Selídove.
The Ukrainian military did not comment on the Russian claims, but reported 31 clashes on the Pokrovsk front during the last 24 hours, including near Selídove.
Ukraine’s Deep State open source intelligence map showed part of Selídove under Russian controland about a third as a gray area.
Several pro-war Russian bloggers said Moscow’s forces had pierced Ukrainian defenses at key points along the front in the south of Donbas. The Russian Army is moving to surround the city of Kurajove and is preparing for an attack on Pokrovsk.
The fastest progress
The Russian Army, which President Vladimir Putin ordered to enter Ukraine in February 2022, advanced in September at its fastest pace since March 2022according to data from open sources, despite the fact that Ukraine took a part of the Russian Kursk region.
But during the week of October 20-27, Russia made even greater progress: took 196.1 square kilometers of Ukrainian territoryaccording to the Russian media group Agentstvowhich analyzed open source Ukrainian maps.
Today, our brave men and women on the front lines are fighting not only for freedom and independence of Ukraine, but for the future of the free world, the future of democracy.
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“The Russian military has not had such a rapid weekly advance since at least the beginning of this year,” he said. Agentstvowho is considered by Russia to be a “foreign agent”, on his Telegram channel.
Agentstvo He said he had used raw data from the Ukrainian analyst group Deep State to reach that conclusion, adding that Ukrainian defenses in Donbas had been compromised. weakened by kyiv’s decision to send troops to Russia’s Kursk region.
The advance of Moscow’s forces, which control just under a fifth of Ukraine, has confirmed Russia’s vast numerical superiority in men and material, while Ukraine asks Western allies for more weapons who have been supporting her.
Russia controls Crimea, which it annexed from Ukraine in 2014, near the 80 percent of Donbass (a coal and steel zone comprising the Donetsk and Luhansk regions) and more than 70 percent of the Zaporizhia and Kherson regions.
To control all of Donbas, Russia would have to take over other 10 thousand km2 of territory.
The United States will not impose new limits on Ukraine’s use of American weapons if North Korea joins Russia’s war, the Pentagon said Monday, as NATO said it North Korean military units had been deployed in Kursk.
The Pentagon estimated that 10 thousand North Korean soldiers They had been deployed to Russia for training.
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