Russian Army Is Taking Sumy, an Important Local City 🇷🇺⚔️
Russian military units appear to be within 18 miles of the city of Sumy, three years after Ukraine 🇺🇦 forced them out of the northern region, while also making new and symbolically important ground in the east 🌍.
Independent monitors confirmed Kremlin claims to have retaken the village of Loknia, which had been liberated along with the rest of the Sumy region during Ukraine’s 2022 spring counteroffensive 💥.
The city of Sumy, which is 200 miles north-east of Kyiv, was never occupied by Russia 🇷🇺 after the full-scale invasion, but Putin’s forces have been bearing down on the regional capital 🏙.
Zelensky warned last month that Russia had concentrated 50,000 troops on the Sumy front, and a series of settlements in the area have since fallen ⚔️.
The regional governor, Oleh Hryhorov, announced the mandatory evacuation of 11 more villages on 31 May, bringing the total number of evacuated settlements in the Sumy region to 213 🏘.
The Russian defence ministry further claimed on Sunday that forces had reached the western frontier of the Donetsk region, in the east of Ukraine, and were advancing in the adjacent Dnipropetrovsk region for the first time in three years of full-scale war 🛡.
The ministry said forces from a tank unit had “reached the western border of the Donetsk People’s Republic and are continuing to develop an offensive in the Dnipropetrovsk region.” 🚀
A spokesperson for Ukraine’s Southern Defence Forces said:
The advance of Russian forces into the industrial region of Dnipropetrovsk for the first time would be a symbolic and strategic setback for Kyiv after the morale-boosting results of Operation Spiderweb, in which its drones attacked some of the Kremlin’s nuclear-capable bombers deep inside Russia 🚁.
Russia launched one of its most intense aerial barrages of the war on Thursday night and into the early hours of Friday morning, firing 452 drones and 45 missiles at Ukrainian cities and infrastructure 💥, but further plans were believed to be in the making 🧠.
One US official told Reuters that while the timing remained unclear, a retaliatory strike could be expected in the coming days and was likely to be “asymmetrical” ⚡️.
With the war heating up 🔥, even the small progress made in the talks in Istanbul between the warring parties appeared at risk of unravelling 🔄.
A large-scale exchange of prisoners and bodies of the dead due to be held on Monday seemed in doubt after each side accused the other of breaking the terms of the agreement ⚖️.
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Russian military units appear to be within 18 miles of the city of Sumy, three years after Ukraine 🇺🇦 forced them out of the northern region, while also making new and symbolically important ground in the east 🌍.
Independent monitors confirmed Kremlin claims to have retaken the village of Loknia, which had been liberated along with the rest of the Sumy region during Ukraine’s 2022 spring counteroffensive 💥.
The city of Sumy, which is 200 miles north-east of Kyiv, was never occupied by Russia 🇷🇺 after the full-scale invasion, but Putin’s forces have been bearing down on the regional capital 🏙.
Zelensky warned last month that Russia had concentrated 50,000 troops on the Sumy front, and a series of settlements in the area have since fallen ⚔️.
The regional governor, Oleh Hryhorov, announced the mandatory evacuation of 11 more villages on 31 May, bringing the total number of evacuated settlements in the Sumy region to 213 🏘.
The Russian defence ministry further claimed on Sunday that forces had reached the western frontier of the Donetsk region, in the east of Ukraine, and were advancing in the adjacent Dnipropetrovsk region for the first time in three years of full-scale war 🛡.
The ministry said forces from a tank unit had “reached the western border of the Donetsk People’s Republic and are continuing to develop an offensive in the Dnipropetrovsk region.” 🚀
A spokesperson for Ukraine’s Southern Defence Forces said:
“The enemy does not abandon its intentions to enter the Dnipropetrovsk region. Our soldiers are courageously and professionally holding their section of the front, disrupting the occupier’s plans. This work does not stop for a minute.” 🇺🇦
The advance of Russian forces into the industrial region of Dnipropetrovsk for the first time would be a symbolic and strategic setback for Kyiv after the morale-boosting results of Operation Spiderweb, in which its drones attacked some of the Kremlin’s nuclear-capable bombers deep inside Russia 🚁.
Russia launched one of its most intense aerial barrages of the war on Thursday night and into the early hours of Friday morning, firing 452 drones and 45 missiles at Ukrainian cities and infrastructure 💥, but further plans were believed to be in the making 🧠.
One US official told Reuters that while the timing remained unclear, a retaliatory strike could be expected in the coming days and was likely to be “asymmetrical” ⚡️.
With the war heating up 🔥, even the small progress made in the talks in Istanbul between the warring parties appeared at risk of unravelling 🔄.
A large-scale exchange of prisoners and bodies of the dead due to be held on Monday seemed in doubt after each side accused the other of breaking the terms of the agreement ⚖️.
#Russian #Army #Sumy #taking
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