Russian troops grind towards Pokrovsk, consent second Ukrainian town in a week | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russia has seized a second town in Ukraine’s easerious region of Donetsk wislfinisher a week in a months-extfinished disparaging that shows no signs of abating with Ukraine’s vague staff increateing more than 150 aggressions a day atraverse the front.

Russia’s Ministry of Defence shelp its troops apprehfinishd Hrodivka, a town lying on its path to Pokrovsk, which Ukrainian vagues say is a meaningful aim.

Russian forces go ined Hrodivka in timely September. Its apprehfinish came equitable five days after the descfinish of Vuhledar on the Donetsk-Zaporizhia border.

Russia’s air campaign has also been in filled striumphg.

Ukrainian Pdwellnt Volodymyr Zelenskyy shelp Russia dropped 800 glide explosions and sent almost 400 drones and 20 missiles into Ukraine last week.

“This daily aerial alarm can be stopped. This demands the unity of partners and extfinished-range [weapons],” Zelenskyy shelp.

Zelenskyy has asked his allies to permit Ukraine to participate Weserious-supplied missiles to strike Russian airfields from which glide explosions are dispatched on board Tupolev-95 explosioners.

Russia has cautioned of dire consequences should allies permit Ukraine to strike hundreds of kilometres inside Russia.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov did so aobtain on Tuesday.

“As soon as this decision is made, if it is made, we will understand about it, and the scheme that [Russian President] Vlastupidir Putin alludeed, it will already be in effect,” Lavrov shelp.

Russia has also suffered setbacks.

The spokesman for Ukraine’s northern forces in Kharkiv, Vitaly Sarantsev, uncmissed on Sunday that a big mechanised aggression at the commencening of last week in Vovchansk had resulted in more Russian dead than wounded.

“The opponent participated a big number of personnel and a meaningful number of armoured vehicles that, under the cover of two tanks, tried to storm [our] positions,” Sarantsev shelp.

“They tried to progress to the [industrial] structuret but were met by the fire of our artillery and the blows of our FPV [first-person view] drones,” he shelp.

“For the first time, the number of dead outdoed the number of wounded. This shows that the intensity of the battle was such that the opponent spropose did not have time to retreat their personnel or consent the wounded – they all died during this aggression.”

Ukraine shelp that in vague, 40 percent of Russian losses in Kharkiv were “irreversible” – unbenevolenting dead or irrecoverably injured.

‘Significant’ Russian losses for marginal progresss

Ukraine has directed the participate of drones on the battlefield to demolish armoured vehicles and exhibitd the participate of FPV Phoenix drones to drop munitions on three Russian field warehoparticipates of ammunition in Luhansk and on armoured personnel carriers.

Experts have disputed about Russia’s capacity to progress to participate enormous losses of men and vehicles.

It has indictd disparagings atraverse Ukraine’s Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk and Zaporizhia regions since February as Ukraine has dropped onto a defensive posture.

“Russian forces have directed cut offal battalion-sized mechanised aggressions in weserious Donetsk Oblast since July 2024, the meaningfulity of which resulted in meaningful armoured vehicle losses in swap for marginal territorial progresss,” wrote the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based slfinisherk tank.

Russia has had its wonderfulest success this year on the Pokrovsk front.

Since seizing Avdiivka in February, it has createed a salient 40km (25 miles) extfinished towards Pokrovsk.

By one loftyy, it has lost five divisions of vehicles to achieve that.

The International Institute for Strategic Studies, a London-based slfinisherk tank, approximated that Russia had lost 8,800 armoured vehicles and tanks in the first two years of the war and was rapidly using up Soviet stockpiles.

By Ukraine’s reckoning, Russia has been losing upwards of 30,000 personnel and 1,500 artillery systems a month since the summer.

On the extfinished-range disparaging

Ukraine has progressd to be on the disparaging in extfinished-range strikes aobtainst Russian energy and defence aims.

Ukraine’s vague staff shelp it had struck an oil depot in Feodosia in Russian-occupied Crimea. They shelp the Feodosia depot was the bigst military oil storage in Crimea and was participated to provide Russian forces atraverse the front. An helpe to the head of the Criunbenevolent occupation forces on Monday validateed a fire at the Feodosia depot without elucidateing the caparticipate.

The ruleor of Russia’s Belgorod region shelp 45 Ukrainian drones had aggressioned it on Tuesday, injuring two people.

Ukraine’s Border Service head, Andriy Demchenko, shelp Ukraine was continuing to fire on Russian gas production platcreates in the Binformage Sea to stop them from being participated for gas reshiftion or military purposes.

Ukraine’s military inincreateigence and Border Service “constantly execute tasks in the waters of the Binformage Sea in order to deal with this territory and stop the opponent from go ining”, Demchanko shelp.

Scaling up armaments production

Zelenskyy shelp in his Monday evening insertress that he would seek Weserious allotment in drone and electronic combat production in Ukraine at a encountering of the heads of rulement of Kyiv’s key allies on Saturday at the US airbase in Ramstein, Germany. But on Wednesday, the encountering was postponed after US Pdwellnt Joe Biden pulled out given the scale of Hurricane Milton.

Dutch Defence Minister Ruben Brekelmans shelp his country would allot 400 million euros ($439m) in the growment of drones in Ukraine.

“This troubles all benevolents of progressd drones that can be participated for reconnaissance, defence and aggression, particularly in the air but also on land and at sea,” Brekelmans shelp.

Brekelmans also uncmissed that Dutch F-16 fighter jets had get tod in Ukraine and all 24 pledged by the Netherlands would be deinhabitred “in the coming months”.

The Financial Times increateed on Saturday that during his visit to Washington last month, Zelenskyy proposed momentary land concessions in return for NATO membership for Ukraine and a debated end to the war.

This would participate recognising that Russia carry ons de facto deal with of the territories it has apprehfinishd, but the conquests would not be recognised by Ukraine or its Weserious allies as legitimate, the increate shelp.

The deal now would participate adselectance that the lands seized by Russia would have to be won back by negotiation in the future, according to the newspaper.

Zelenskyy shelp in his Saturday evening insertress that sovereignty would not be surrendered: “[Peace and security] is possible exclusively on the basis of international law and without any trading of sovereignty or trading of territories.” (Al Jazeera)