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30-06-2025
- Politics
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Russia only 12 km from key Ukraine city, its troops outnumber Kyiv forces 3-to-1
After clearing out Ukrainian positions in Russia's Kursk region earlier this year, Moscow has shifted its focus across the border, with an estimated 50,000 troops pushing toward Sumy, according to a report read more In this photo taken from video distributed by Russian Defence Ministry Press Service on Tuesday, June 24, 2025, a Russian soldier prepares Giatsint-B 152 mm field gun to fire towards Ukrainian position on an undisclosed location in Ukraine. AP File Russian forces are now just 12 kilometers from the key northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy, using their roughly 3-to-1 manpower advantage to ramp up attacks along the front. According to The Wall Street Journal report, after clearing out Ukrainian positions in Russia's Kursk region earlier this year, Moscow has shifted its focus across the border, with an estimated 50,000 troops pushing toward Sumy. Ukrainian soldiers on the ground say they are being heavily outnumbered as the Kremlin continues to press its numerical edge in multiple sectors, added the report. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD 'Their main strategy is to wear us down with their numbers.' The Wall Street Journal quoted Ukraine's top military commander Gen. Oleksandr Syrskiy as saying. The Russian push toward Sumy comes amid rising frustration from President Donald Trump over the Kremlin's refusal to pursue a cease-fire. Despite ongoing talks between Ukrainian and Russian officials in Turkey in recent weeks, Moscow has escalated its missile and drone strikes on Ukrainian cities. In the latest barrage, described as the largest of the war in terms of munitions fired, Ukraine lost an F-16 fighter jet and its pilot overnight Sunday. Gen. Syrskiy told The Wall Street Journal that over the past year, the front line has extended by more than 100 miles and now spans over 750 miles from northeast to south, . Russian forces have been probing for weak spots, then striking hard when they find one, as they did in Sumy last month. In response, Ukrainian commanders have scrambled to plug gaps, often deploying elite units. Earlier this month, Ukraine sent in HUR commandos to stabilise the front. Since then, Russian gains in Sumy have largely stalled, and Ukrainian forces have retaken some ground. 'Now we're looking for ways to conduct our own assaults and push the enemy back,' WSJ quoted Timur, commander of the Timur Special Forces Unit, an elite unit of HUR that has been fighting in the region for several weeks, as saying. It isn't an easy task for Ukrainian forces, which are outnumbered nearly everywhere across the front. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD 'Their numbers are a big problem for us, though not enough to overrun us,' Kappa, commander of the Chimera unit of the Timur Special Forces Unit, told WSJ. 'The enemy is losing 300 to 400 people per day across the region. But they can deal with that level of casualties…They keep bringing in reserves.' Earlier this month, a dozen fighters from the Timur Special Forces Unit set out to assault a Russian-held village north of Sumy. But halfway there, in a tree-line trench, they collided with a Russian assault team moving in from the opposite direction. Outnumbered, they were pinned down for seven hours as Russian forces tried to encircle them, reported WSJ. 'It was the cruelest fight I've ever been in,' Mark, the Ukrainian team's 25-year-old platoon commander, was quoted as saying. 'They were attacking with infantry, drones, grenade launchers, machine guns, artillery, cluster munitions. Everything…We never had more than a five-minute break while they were regrouping,' Mark added. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Mark said his team killed five Russian soldiers during the clash, usually enough to force a platoon to retreat. But these troops were better trained than others he'd faced, and they kept advancing, determined to take the trench. According to The Wall Street Journal, Helmet-cam footage shows a relentless firefight, gunfire crackling like popping corn. Mark called in mortar strikes while hugging the trench edge as artillery whistled overhead. One machine-gunner fired 5,500 rounds during the battle. Eventually, the team withdrew, crawling back through brush under mortar fire and drone strikes. All made it out, though three were shot and everyone suffered concussions, added the report. 'I'm really glad we got everyone out alive,' Mark said. 'We were in a really tough situation.' Still, soldiers in the area say holding Sumy is costing more lives than it should. During the six months Ukraine held ground in Russia's Kursk region, troops assumed defences were being fortified on the Ukrainian side of the border. But after a chaotic and costly retreat, they returned to find outdated trenches with no overhead cover from drones. In some cases, they're now digging fresh positions under enemy fire. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD They also report that key areas now under Russian advance were left unmined. 'It's like they prepared for tank columns, not a battlefield where dozens of drones strike daily,' WSJ quoted one infantry commander named Kyrylo, who fought in Kursk and is now fighting in Sumy, as saying. 'Every single day a position isn't ready is a day someone might not come back.' Asked about fortifications last week, Defence Minister Rustem Umerov said that the defensive lines in Sumy were being improved in threatened areas. 'Fortification is not just about concrete and trenches—it is an adaptive engineering system that takes the enemy's tactics into account and always serves one purpose: protecting our warriors,' he was quoted as saying. With inputs from agencies
Yomiuri Shimbun
28-04-2025
- Politics
- Yomiuri Shimbun
Russia Launches Nearly 150 Drones against Ukraine as Trump Says He Doubts Putin's Desire for Peace
Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP In this photo taken from video distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Sunday, April 27, 2025, a Russian Army 152mm howitzer Giatsint-B fires towards Ukrainian positions in Kherson, Ukraine. KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a sweeping drone assault and airstrikes across Ukraine early Sunday, killing at least four people, officials said, after U.S. President Donald Trump cast doubt over Russian President Vladimir Putin's willingness to end the war. Three people died and four were wounded in airstrikes on Kostyantynivka in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, the regional prosecutor's office said. Another person died and a 14-year-old girl was wounded in a drone attack on the city of Pavlohrad in the Dnipropetrovsk region, which was hit for the third consecutive night, Gov. Serhii Lysak said. The attacks came hours after Russia claimed to have regained control over the remaining parts of the Kursk region that Ukrainian forces seized in a surprise incursion in August 2024. Ukrainian officials said the fighting in Kursk was still ongoing. Trump said Saturday he doubts Putin wants to end the more than 3-year-old war, expressing new skepticism a peace deal can be reached soon. Only a day earlier, Trump had said Ukraine and Russia were ' very close to a deal.' 'There was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns, over the last few days,' Trump wrote in a social media post as he flew back to the U.S. after attending the funeral of Pope Francis at the Vatican, where he met briefly with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Trump also hinted at further sanctions against Russia. On Sunday evening, as he left his golf club in New Jersey, Trump told reporters he remained 'disappointed' in Russia's attacks. Trump said of Putin: 'I want him to stop shooting, sit down and make a deal.' Asked what he would do if Russia does not stop its attacks, Trump replied: 'I have a lot of things that I can do.' The Vatican Trump-Zelenskyy conversation was the first face-to-face encounter between the two leaders since their heated Oval Office meeting at the White House on Feb. 28. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday the coming week would be 'very critical,' and that the U.S. would need to 'make a determination about whether this is an endeavor that we want to continue to be involved in.' Asked on NBC's 'Meet the Press' about possible concessions to Russia, Rubio emphasized the need to be 'grownups and realistic.' 'There is no military solution to this war. The only solution to this war is a negotiated settlement where both sides are going to have to give up something they claim to want and are going to have to give the other side something they wish they didn't,' he said. Russia fired 149 exploding drones and decoys in the latest wave of attacks, the Ukrainian air force said, adding that 57 were intercepted and another 67 jammed. One person was wounded in drone attacks on the Odesa region and one other was hurt in the city of Zhytomyr. Four people were also wounded in a Russian airstrike on the city of Kherson on Sunday, local officials said. Russia's Defense Ministry said air defenses shot down five Ukrainian drones in the border region of Bryansk, as well as three drones over the Crimean Peninsula, which was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014. Five people were wounded when Ukrainian forces shelled the city of Horlivka in the partially occupied Donetsk region, said the Russian-installed Mayor Ivan Prikhodko.
Yahoo
04-04-2025
- Yahoo
Russian drone targets car carrying journalist and soldiers in Kharkiv Oblast – photos, video
A Russian Molniya UAV has hit a car carrying a Ukrainian Witness journalist and soldiers. They were 20 km from the contact line on their way to film the work of a Giatsint-B gun crew in Kharkiv Oblast. Source: Ukrainian Witness Quote: "Oleksa Zhovtyi, a Ukrainian Witness journalist, was travelling with the military in Kharkiv Oblast to film the firing position of a mounted Giatsint-B gun of the 15th Operational Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine. On the way, when they were 20 km from the line of contact, their Nissan Navara pickup truck was hit by an enemy Molniya UAV, an aircraft-type strike drone, which is referred to by the operator as an FPV." Details: As a result of the UAV attack, two soldiers were lightly injured, and the vehicle is out of commission. It is noted that the drone hit the vehicle, so the explosion felt like a mine explosion. The soldiers and the journalist immediately left the pickup and took cover in a nearby building to call for an evacuation and examine their injuries. Ihor Lavrov, the brigade's press officer, was more seriously injured. A car quickly followed the group and took the wounded and the journalist to the nearest village, where it was supposed to be safer to wait for medical evacuation. The damaged pickup truck is being repaired by the military at their own repair centre. Background: On 17 January 2025, a Russian drone attacked a car with Ukrainian Witness journalist Marharyta Potapova and cameraman Oleksandr Davydenko on the Zaporizhzhia front. Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
