The Russian army announced today that it has occupied two places in the east of Ukraine, where it has been advancing slowly but steadily for months against less numerous Ukrainian troops.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that units of Group South captured the village of Yantarne, in the eastern Donetsk region.
That place is located about ten kilometers southwest of Kurahova, an important Ukrainian stronghold that Moscow says it captured on Monday after several weeks of fighting.
The Russian army also reported yesterday that it had advanced northwest of Kurakhova.
The Russian ministry added today that it has taken the place of Kalinova, in the northeastern Kharkiv region.
That place is located on the west bank of the river Oskil, and in that sector it long marked the front line between the two sides.
A Ukrainian official announced on Thursday that Russian forces had managed to cross the Oskil.
In recent months, the Russian army has been trying to cross that river that passes through the town of Kupyansk.
Russian troops advanced slowly but steadily on the front in 2024, although they did not achieve any major breakthrough.
At the same time, night drone attacks and bombings continue.
The Ukrainian army announced that it shot down 60 Russian drones last night.
Debris from the drones damaged several houses in the Ukrainian regions of Kharkiv, Sumy and Poltava, but there were no casualties, the same source added.
Three people were wounded by Russian drones in the southern Kherson region, Ukrainian local authorities reported today.
In the same area, but in the part controlled by Moscow, a pensioner was killed and a man was wounded in an attack by a Ukrainian drone, said Vladimir Saldo, a local official appointed by Moscow.
In Russia, in the part of the Kursk region that has been under Kiev's control since the offensive in August, two Russian airstrikes badly damaged a school in Suja last night, a local Ukrainian official reported. He said a woman was wounded and succumbed to her injuries this morning, adding that more than 80 elderly people were temporarily living in the building.
According to him, about 2.000 civilians still live in the zone under the control of the Ukrainian army in the Kursk region.
In the Russian region of Saratov, the fire at the oil plant continues to burn today, governor Roman Busargin said via Telegram, four days after the attack by Ukrainian drones. According to him, firefighters are working around the clock to extinguish the fire, whose area and smoke have been reduced.
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