The Russian troops conduct an uninterrupted offensive along the entire length of the front in Ukraine – the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia informed General Walerij Gierasimow.
According to his data, the Russian forces took over 3.5 thousand from March. square kilometers of Ukraine's territory and took control of 149 villages. Such information was provided via Zawizda, the official broadcaster of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
According to Gierasimów, Russian forces currently control 99.7 percent. territories of the Lugansk region and 79 percent Donetsk region in the east of Ukraine and 74 percent Zaporian region and 76 percent Cherry District in the south of this country.
Ukraine: The occupation of Donbass is absolutely impossible this year
Andrij Kaluenko, head of the Ukrainian government center of counteracting disinformation (CPD), warned earlier in August that the Kremlin was trying to convince the West that the Russian army would occupy the entire Donbass, i.e. the Lugansh and Dononi circuits, this year. As he emphasized, this is absolutely impossible.
Russian aggression in Donbas has been going on since 2014. After the annexation of Crimea by Russia in March of that year, armed formations supported by Moscow proclaimed the creation of the so -called Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republic. Since then, Russia has been maintaining its troops and structures in a significant part of the Donetsk and Lugansk region.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been on full -scale since February 2022.
