Russia gathers large forces, prepares to attack Sloviansk city

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 The Ukrainian military publishes the latest reports on the military situation in the east of the country.


CNN quoted the latest report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as saying that the Russian military is concentrating a large force near Sloviansk to prepare for a general offensive against this city.


The Sloviansk Defense Forces on June 3 said that Russia is concentrating a force with up to 20 battalions in the region. The Russian army had previously tried to launch an attack on the two northern and northwestern towns of Sloviansk, Barvinkove and Sviatohirsk. Russian army artillery has continuously opened fire on Ukrainian defensive posts in these areas. However, the Ukrainian side insisted that its forces repelled the attacks.


Currently, fighting continues as Russia tries to gain more territory in eastern Ukraine after capturing the strategic town of Lyman at the end of May.


Update on the military situation in the city of Severodonetsk, the General Staff of Ukraine said the battles continued "under heavy artillery shelling of the Russian army". "Russia has attacked residential areas in the eastern part of the city and these attacks have been partially successful," the Ukrainian military official said.


Ukraine also insists that the Russian military has made no further progress in its efforts to gain control of other settlements in the territory that Ukrainian forces are defending, including Bakhmut, Soledar and Lysychansk.


Ukraine also emphasized that the Russians are facing a big barrier in crossing the Donets River. The strategic river crossing points are still under the control of Ukrainian units.


In the area on the Kharkov side, the Ukrainian army has achieved initial successes in recapturing territory in recent weeks. Ukraine's Defense Ministry revealed that Russian forces are trying to "hold back the advance of the Ukrainian army along the border direction and continuously bombard Ukrainian units with aircraft, artillery, rockets, mortars, tank".


The Russian Air Force carried out an air raid by Mi-8 helicopters against Ukrainian military positions in the Slatyne and Dementiivka regions north of Kharkov.


In recent times, the Ukrainian army, with the aid of modern Western weapons, has continuously launched counter-attacks to regain the lost territories after Russia's special military operation in Ukraine. In the opposite direction, Russia is also accelerating its attacks to gain complete control of eastern Ukraine.

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