Violent attacks on the city
Ukraine expects Russian attack on Zaporizhia
October 5, 2024, 5:48 p.m
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So far, Russian troops have occupied the south of the Zaporizhzhia region, which has the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. Now the city of the same name is also targeted by the invaders. The responsible military representative speaks of a “very difficult situation”.
According to the Ukrainian military leadership, Russian troops are preparing for an imminent attack in the direction of the large city of Zaporizhzhia. This advance was intended, among other things, to cut off the supply lines in the eastern defense areas around the Donbass, the military representative responsible for the region, Vladislav Voloshin, speculated on television.
“The fact that the so-called counter-battery war as well as the shelling of our positions and the attacks on our lines continue shows that the situation there is very difficult,” he said. Counter-battery warfare refers to artillery bombardment of identified enemy artillery positions. There are also heavy air and rocket attacks on this section of the front south of Zaporizhzhia. “The situation there is quite turbulent.”
In the Zaporizhia region, Russian troops have occupied the south of the area with the nuclear power plant of the same name – the largest in Europe. The city of the same name itself is not yet under Russian occupation.
Russian advances in eastern Ukraine
Russian units have recently conquered additional villages and settlements around the Donbass in eastern Ukraine. Moscow has annexed the occupied territories in Ukraine in violation of international law and integrated them into Russia’s territory, but does not fully control these regions within the administrative borders.
This Saturday, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that units of Army Group South had taken the settlement of Schelanne Druhe. Before the war, Schelanne Druhe once had more than 200 residents. The town is located on the eastern bank of the Vovcha River, just a few kilometers from the strategically important city of Kurachove.