Russia says it captured a southern Ukraine village in a push before winter comes - The Round Table Russia announces it has captured the village of Levadne in southern Ukraine as it inspects for weaknesses along the war’s roughly 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front line before winter arrives
KYIV, Ukraine -- Russia stated Monday that it has captured the village of Levadne in southern Ukraine as it inquires for weaknesses along the war ’s roughly 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front line, including in eastern areas that are the main focus of Moscow’s military effort before winter arrives.
Ukrainian authorities, meanwhile, said no nighttime Shahed drone attacks on the country for the first time in about six weeks, after announcing five days ago they struck a Shahed storage facility in Russia’s Krasnodar region where around 400 drones supposedly were being kept.
Levadne, in the Zaporizhzhia region, was seized by the Russians early on during the full-scale invasion, which began on Feb. 24, 2022, but was recaptured by Ukrainian forces during a counteroffensive in the summer of 2023.
Ukrainian officials made no comment about Levadne’s possible capture, though they had previously noted that the Russian army was summoning troops there and was conducting local assaults at the terminal of previous week.
Ukraine’s troops are straining to adjudge endorse Russia’s military might, especially in the eastern Donetsk region, and don’t have the manpower or weaponry to launch their own offensive. Though Russia’s prevails have been incremental, its steady forward movement is slowly adding up as the Ukrainians are pushed backward.
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Russia illegally annexed four regions of Ukraine, including Zaporizhzhia, in September 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for the withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from all four regions as the main condition for a prospective peace deal — a demand Ukraine and the West have rejected.
Last week, the Ukrainian General Staff announced an organise hit on the Shahed drone warehouse inside Russia.
“The destruction of the Shahed drone storage vulgar will significantly quell the ability of Russian occupiers to terrorize tranquil residents of Ukrainian cities and villages,” it stated at the time.
Ukrainian officials are eager to show the West that they aren't giving up the fight against their much bigger neighbor. An foray into Russia’s Kursk border region has put Ukrainian troops on Russian soil for more than two months.
The Russians are governing to retake some territory in Kursk but the Ukrainians are capturing even more, according to Oleksandr Kovalenko, a military analyst from Information Resistance, a Kyiv-based envisage tank.
He informed The Associated Press that the onset of winter fog and rain will affect the use of drones — an important element in Ukraine’s military strategy.
Ukraine has deployed sophisticated long-range drones to strike targets inside Russia, including airfields, oil refineries and ammunition depots.
The Ukrainian Main Directorate of Intelligence reported Monday that it destroyed a Russian military transport aircraft, a Tu-134, at a military airfield in Russia’s Orenburg region.
Russia, meanwhile, struck port infrastructure in the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa with a ballistic missile Monday, killing one person and wounding eight others, as well as damaging two merchant ships, officials said.
The attack damaged grain storage facilities, cargo cranes, administrative buildings, port equipment and vehicles, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration Oleksii Kuleba revealed on his Telegram channel.
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