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Fierce fighting is going on in eastern Ukraine

Fierce fighting broke out on Wednesday in eastern Ukraine’s Soledar, where Russia is trying to turn the tide of the war at any cost, changing its military leader again as Kyiv looks closer to acquiring Western heavy weapons. “Everything that happened today. Mykhailo Podoliak, adviser to the presidency of Ukraine, told AFP in an interview, “This is the bloodiest scenario of the war in the direction of Bakhmout or Soledar.” In the evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. capture this mining town of 10,000 near the more important city of Bakhmout, which the Ukrainians have been defending mercilessly for several months. The group of Russian mercenaries Wagner, who claimed responsibility for its capture, repeatedly attacked Moscow would have been a military victory. The humiliating failures since September were denied not only by the Ukrainian military, but also by the Russian army. “The offensive forces are fighting in the city”, in turn, assured the Russian Ministry of Defense that “airborne northern and southern parts” Soledar .- “Big” Russian losses – Kremlin warning about the situation on the ground was approaching. don’t rush. Let’s wait for the official announcements,” Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the Russian president, told the press, taking into account the “positive dynamics” in the ranks of the Russian troops. Bober, a wounded Ukrainian soldier who insisted that “no one planned to surrender the city”, was met by AFP on Wednesday on the road connecting Bakhmout with Sloviansk. Soledar was not “completely captured” by the Russians, according to Mykhailo Podoliak, Russian military losses were “huge” and “the Ukrainian army is also losing people.” “Certainly, it’s more than before in other places,” he told AFP. The governor of Ukraine, Serguiï Gaïdaï., in all parts of Ukraine, “the enemy carried out two missile strikes and 22 air strikes during the day”, concluded the Ukrainian ministry. Nothing from the defense. In the south, in the city of Kherson, where shelling caused “numerous explosions”, the state university and the perinatal center were damaged, the governor of the province Yaroslav Yanushevich said with regret. The office of the President of Ukraine added that an employee of the maternity hospital was also seriously injured. A little further north, in Marhanets, as a result of Russian strikes, 9 residential buildings were damaged, according to local authorities, one person was wounded by shrapnel. General Valery Gerassimov, the chief of the general staff of the armies considered to have done this, was appointed the “commander of the joint group of troops” stationed in Ukraine, a direct interlocutor of Vladimir Putin. Increasing the command level of the special operation (in Ukraine) is related to the expansion of the scope of the missions to be carried out. there is a need for closer interaction between the constituent parts of the armed forces,” the Ministry of Defense explained. demoted to the rank of deputy – will lead operations for just three months. He was appointed in October to correct the situation of the Russian army, which suffered setbacks in the face of Ukrainian attacks in Kharkiv (northeast). and Kherson. He was attributed the tactics of massive strikes on the energy infrastructure of Ukraine, which did not bend Kiev. – Heavy tanks? – At the same time, Ukraine once again declared its appeals to its western partners. On January 20, a new meeting was held at the American base in Ramstein, Germany, to provide it with heavy and long-range weapons: “Only missiles with a range of more than 100 kilometers will allow us to significantly accelerate the liberation of the territories.” In his statement to AFP, Mykhailo Podoliak promised that they will not be used against Russian territory: “We always want to get 250-350 tanks l. ours,” he repeated. Western chancellors have been slow to respond positively to Kiev’s appeals in this regard, and Paris, London, Berlin and Washington have only promised tanks and other light armored vehicles at this stage. But Poland took the first step on Wednesday. President of the company Andrzej Duda said that he is ready to deliver 14 German Leopard 2 heavy tanks to Lviv in the west of Ukraine, stressing that this supply will be carried out “as part of the coalition under construction”. “A single country cannot help us because we are fighting thousands of Russian tanks,” Mr. Zelensky replied. Finally, on the diplomatic front, Russian and Ukrainian officials held a rare meeting between human rights officers in Turkey on Tuesday. two fighters, Dmitry Loubinets and Tatyana Moskalkova.bur/lpt/bds/ib