Slowly but advancing, Ukraine claims to be regaining territory from Russian troops. Specifically, another three square kilometers in a week in the vicinity of Bakhmut.
In addition, it resists the offensive in the Kharkiv region and continues to overwhelm the Russian regions with sporadic drone strikes. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it had shot down two drones heading to Moscow on Monday. The falling debris caused two injuries near the Russian capital.
Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said that Ukrainian forces were advancing south of Bakhmut, a city of 70,000 inhabitants before the war that for months became a paradigm of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Russian forces seized this stronghold in the Ukrainian province of Donetsk (in Donbass) after more than half a year of assaults led by the Wagner mercenary group.
According to Maliar, the Ukrainians have recaptured another three square kilometers in the south of the city in a week. During its counteroffensive, Ukraine has retaken a total of 43 square kilometers around Bakhmut, but the town remains under Russian control.
The Ukrainian military strategy is to continue advancing and surround the Russian troops that are inside the city.
Russia, for its part, concentrates its offensive on the front line in the Kharkiv region, specifically the area of ??the city of Kupiansk. But Kyiv claims that its troops are resisting the attacks.
Maliar acknowledged on Ukrainian television that the situation is “difficult” because “the enemy does not abandon his plans to move forward” in that area. “We trust our defenders, but (the situation) is very difficult for them, and the enemy is not advancing,” he said.
On Russian territory, the conflict takes the form of military drones. For the fourth day in a row, Ukrainian drones crossed the border and reached as far as Moscow, testing its anti-aircraft defenses.
These worked well and on the morning of this Monday they shot down two of these devices that were heading towards the capital of Russia.
The first was eliminated by electronic warfare systems at 6:50 (one hour less in Barcelona; 3:50 GMT) in the town of Pokrovskoe, 75 kilometers west of Moscow.
The second, at 8:16 with traditional means over the Istra district, some 56 kilometers west of the capital. The remains of it fell on an area of ??country houses and caused two injuries, one of whom had to be hospitalized, reported the governor of the Moscow Region, Andrei Vorobiov.
As a preventive measure, after unidentified flying devices were detected, activity at the four Moscow airports, Sheremetevo, Domodedovo, Vnukovo and Zhukovsky, was interrupted. According to the Russian air authority Rosaviatsia, 45 passenger flights and two transport flights had to be altered, with delays or diversions to other destinations.
Since Russia said in May that two drones had tried to attack the Kremlin itself, the arrival of these devices in the Russian capital has become more frequent.
A day earlier, anti-aircraft defenses intercepted one in the Stupino district, one hundred kilometers south of Moscow.
On Sunday, drones were also detected and shot down in the Russian regions of Kursk, Rostov and Belgorod, all of which border Ukraine.
