Sloviansk agglomeration
Russians are advancing on the next target in the east
7/4/2022 8:24 am
Russian troops take control of Lyssychansk for the time being. The attackers’ next target is Sloviansk, and they are tightening the noose from both the north and east. The metropolitan area is part of the headquarters of the Ukrainian defense forces in Donbass.
After capturing the former city of Lysychansk in eastern Ukraine, Russian troops are advancing on the next target, the Sloviansk conurbation. “In the direction of Sloviansk, the Russians are trying to establish control over the towns of Bohorodychne, Dolyna and Masanivka,” he said Ukrainian General Staff in Kyiv with. The three towns are less than 20 kilometers north and northeast of Sloviansk, on the south bank of the Seversky Donets River.
According to this information, the Russian troops also crossed the Siwerskyi Donets from the east, which runs in an arc in the region. There the enemy is trying to push back the Ukrainian forces to a new line of defense between Siwersk, Soledar and Bakhmut, the situation report said. These three cities are about 30 to 40 kilometers east of the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk conurbation, which is considered the headquarters of the Ukrainian Defense Forces in Donbass.
According to Mayor Vadym Lyakh, 6 people were killed and 15 wounded in rocket attacks on Sloviansk on Sunday. Lyakh called the attack the “most serious attack in recent times” on the city in the Donetsk region. Among the dead is a child. According to Lyakh, civilian objects were hit – not military facilities.
On other front sections, both in the north around the city of Kharkiv and in the south in the Black Sea regions of Zaporizhia, Cherson and Mykolaiv, there were no significant troop movements, according to Ukrainian information, despite heavy artillery combat. The information cannot be verified independently. After weeks of fighting, Russia declared on Sunday that it had taken the city of Lysychansk. Ukraine confirmed in the evening that its troops there are withdrawing.