Russia intensifies battle for Donbas as forces encircle city

[rayg]

Russia intensifies battle for Donbas as forces encircle city

Lengthy and interesting article

Russia intensifies battle for Donbas as forces encircle eastern key city: Putin's Terminator tanks are deployed into Luhansk region - after Moscow claimed to have destroyed Western arms shipment destined for Ukrainian troops
Russian forces are trying to surround Sievierodonetsk in eastern Donbas region

Britain's MoD said Russia has deployed 10 of its BMP-T Terminator support tanks
BMP-Ts are designed to protect main battle tanks, of which Russia has lost many
However, MoD said tanks are unlikely to have a 'significant impact' on the war

The cities of Sievierodonetsk and Sloviansk, in the Donetsk region, are critical to Russia's objective of capturing all of eastern Ukraine after it backed off Kyiv
Sievierodonetsk's governor said the city was under attack from four directions
Despite this, he said that Russian forces had so far failed to breach the city

Meanwhile, Russia's defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov claimed its forces destroyed a shipment of western-supplied weapons in northern Ukraine
This comes a day after he announced Russian forces had 'liberated' Mariupol's steelworks after the last Ukrainian soldiers inside surrendered


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[togor]

If the West has troops covertly fighting in Ukraine, that's probably where they are right now, figuring out how to knock out Ivan's heavy weapons.