Russia said its ground forces first moved to the Ukrainian central area of Dnipropetrovský, a symbolic milestone in their grinding of the offensive, because the prospects of the American-mediated ceasefire remain elusive.
The claim could not be independently verified, and the southern defense forces of Ukraine said in response that its troops “held their part of the queue” while participating “tense” situations.
Units 90. Tank Regiment crossed the western border of Donetsk to the neighboring Dnipropetrov region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on its telegram channel on Sunday.
It would be the first time that Moscow’s ground forces have stood up in one of the most populous and popular areas of Ukraine since the beginning of more than three years ago.
The value of reaching the edge of the region seems to be symbolic, because the Kremlin units are more than 140 kilometers from the Dnipro’s regional capital, which is also protected by the river of the same name and its mouth system.
Nevertheless, pushing further to the West could support the aggressive posture impressed by President Vladimir Putin, who follows maximalistic goals in Ukraine and at the same time resist the efforts of US President Donald Trump about his negotiating table.
Dnipro is the fourth largest city of Ukraine, Kiev, Charkiv and Suba, with a pre -war population of about 1 million people.
Progress is taking place at a time when Russia recently confiscated a small amount of territory near the nations in the northeastern area of the sum of Ukraine. It also brings a war to the soil of two provinces that have not yet been officially earmarked for annexation by Putin.
The Russian President demanded that Kiev be surrendered to the provinces of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zeporizhzhia and Kherson, which illegally joined Russia in 2022 but does not control it. In addition, this is to the Crimea that the Kremlin was illegally connected in 2014.
The Russian slow ground war has recently increased speed and at the end of May it captured a small amount of territory.
Before the beginning of the war, Dnipropetrovsk after Ukraine was the second most populous region after Donetsk and the region of Sending is the second largest territory of the ground mass. It is home to the main steel industry, coal mining and machines and is an important logistics center for the army.
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