war in Ukraine
Kremlin gives order to spread attacks in all directions
Odessa: A plume of smoke rises from a warehouse after a rocket attack. Russia has ordered its troops to widen the attack in the neighboring country.
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After inspecting the troops involved in the Ukraine war, Russian Defense Minister Shoigu ordered the attack to be expanded to the neighboring country.
Two days after the devastating rocket attack in the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia, which killed at least three people, Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has ordered the attack to be expanded to the neighboring country. The politician gave the order during an inspection of the troops involved in the Ukraine war.
“After hearing (the situation report), the head of the Russian Defense Ministry gave the necessary instructions to expand the activities of the army groups in all directions of attack in order to deprive the Kiev regime of the possibility of further massive artillery and rocket attacks on infrastructure and civilians in the Donbass and in other regions,” said the ministry on Saturday. This is Shoigu’s second inspection of Russian forces in Ukraine. The first took place at the end of June.
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At the current event, the Russian Defense Minister honored two high-ranking generals, including the head of Army Group “Center”, Colonel-General Alexander Lapin, who is considered to be one of the leaders in the conquest of the Sievjerodonetsk-Lyssychansk conurbation in the Donbass by troops loyal to Moscow. Russia has been waging a war of aggression against Ukraine for almost five months. After initial failures in the north of the country, the Russian troops were later able to gain ground through massive use of artillery in the Donbass and reported the conquest of the Luhansk region, which was symbolically important for Moscow.
Due to the use of the Himars rocket launchers by the Ukrainian side, however, the Russian military had to accept serious setbacks in the past two weeks because high-ranking command points as well as ammunition and weapons depots in the occupied hinterland were destroyed.