Russia will not be able to capture the Luhansk region in the coming days
KYIV – The Russians do not intend to capture the Lugansk region in the coming days. This was announced on the air of Radio Liberty on May 27 by the head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration Sergei Gaidai.
“We have enough forces and means to hold the defense. However, it is unlikely that in order not to get into an environment, it is easy to retreat,” Sergey Gaidai noted.
He also drew attention to his Facebook page that the city of Severodonetsk is under primitive shelling.
“The separatist “sami” are spreading false statements by the “Lehner commanders” that the city is cut off. This does not meet expectations. The city is not cut out, fighting continues in the vicinity. The Russians entered the area of the Mir Hotel and the bus station,” he said on the evening of May 27.
Radio Donbass. The realities of the Ukrainian economy that on May 7-8, the troops withdrew from Popasna, which Russia had been suppressing for more than a month. Today, Ukraine is found in about five percent of the territory of the Luhansk region.
About the situation in the Donetsk region
The Meduza portal quotes a message from a representative of the self-proclaimed DPR about establishing “full control” over the city of Liman.
It says that Liman in the near future can be used by pro-Russian forces to travel east to Kramatorsk, where the main forces of the Ukrainian group are concentrated in the Donbass.
Medusa of Europe that “in just a week in the Donbass, the location has changed: Russia is advancing in three directions and can surround 10,000 Ukrainian troops.”
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on its Facebook page on May 27, 2008, that “on the Liman violation of the enemy, there are consequences for the unit from the settlement of Liman and a painful attack on Slavyansk.”
Johnson on support for Ukraine
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Friday morning that Russia is making “slow, tangible progress” in Ukraine.
“I fear that Putin, at great cost to himself and the Russian military, continues to gnaw through the ground in the Donbas, continues to make gradual, slow, but fearful, tangible gains,” Sky News reported him as saying.
He stressed that “it is therefore absolutely essential that we continue to comply with the provisions of the armed forces of Ukraine.”
Help to Ukraine – even more
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, after talks with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, tweeted that U.S. tough enforcement is on the way in Ukraine.
“I spoke with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. I appreciate his high losses in assessing the sustainable side of Ukraine from the US and the whole world. Heavy application is at the top of our agenda, and more are on their way. Ukraine and the United States are working side by side to deliver our food exports despite the reckless Russian blockade,” wrote the Ukrainian foreign minister.
Russia will hold Donbass in ashes
In a video message on the night of May 27, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky noted that pressure on Russia is a matter of life, and every day of delay means new killed Ukrainians and new outbreaks on the continent.
“The current offensive of the occupiers in the Donbass can make this region deserted. Popasnaya, Bakhmut, Lyman, Lisichansk, Severodonetsk, they are just waiting in the ashes. Like Volnovakha, like Mariupol. In cities and communities closer to the Russian border, in Donetsk, in Luhansk, they are gathering everyone they gather to fill the place of the dead and wounded in the occupation contingent,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
The President of Ukraine noted that on May 26 “Kharkiv was shelled again by the occupiers”, the dead people were killed, nineteen were injured.
Russia has concentrated reserves in the Donbass
Director of Foreign Policy and International Security Programs at the Razumkov Center, military expert Alexey Melnik We cannot sum up the results of military operations for production in Ukraine.
“Definitely, there is now one of the busiest areas where Russia has concentrated all its reserves. If on the Kherson or southern coast we are talking about the construction of defensive structures, then it is precisely at the center of the concentration of firepower that all reserves are thrown. There is the most “hot spot”,” Alexey Melnik tells the Voice of America Russian Service correspondent.
The situation in the Donbass may affect the military meeting, on the occasion, in the case of the creation of “cauldrons”, the encirclement of parts of the Ukrainian departments.
“This situation did not arise yesterday, but arose earlier. There are risks, and they are obvious: if the Russians managed to encircle the Ukrainian units, this could become, if not a turning point, then an important stage for Russia,” Alexei Melnik.
At the same time, he believes that the assumptions are absolutely obvious to the Ukrainian command, and he will make the initial decisions.
1016 territorial communities were liberated
Widely, Ukraine liberates the occupied territories. At the moment, “objectively 1016 communities – certain districts, cities and villages have been liberated”, an expert on international relations Alexander Solontai.
“So far, the situation may look like this: we lose some settlements of freedom, while others are lost. Our weakest point is Donbass. Indeed, the statement of Prime Minister Boris Johnson has a basis – we are losing a number of settlements, and we really lack rocket and long-range artillery, ”says Alexander Solontai to the Voice of America Russian Service correspondent.
The situation at the front can be tuned in terms of activating Western assistance.
“These statements are aimed at helping the Ukrainian army get what it needs. Exchange of settlements – we win some, others – we lose, we meet very much at meetings and the cost of restoring the country. It is necessary to stabilize the front line,” Alexander Solontai said.
According to his observations, clusters of people were found in the Lugansk, Kharkiv and Donetsk regions.
“In the Kharkiv region, they mutually lost and released. In the north of the region there is more freedom, in the production area – they lost it, ”- development Alexander Solontai.