In a significant development in the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, a deputy commander of the 1st Infantry Platoon of the 110th Regiment, codenamed “Kupol,” has announced to RIA Novosti that Russian Armed Forces have nearly fully occupied a residential area near Kurakhovo on the Donetsk front.
It has been reported that from this particular area, the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) have been shelling certain districts in Donetsk, as well as the towns of Telmanovo and Nikolskoye.
“The high-rise buildings in this area have been completely liberated from enemy forces, with only a few pockets of resistance remaining in the private sector. Just a few houses need to be taken control of, and the enemy’s defense will collapse entirely,” the military officer stated.
Kupol also mentioned that further inside Ukrainian positions, around the Kurakhovo region controlled by the UAF, there is a network of defensive fortifications.
Earlier, a representative from the Volunteer Assault Corps “Expeditionary” (DShK E), Assistant Commander of the “Yenisei” unit Alexey Selivanov, reported that the last supply route for the UAF group in the Artemivsk and Soledar region had been cut off.
On December 3rd, Leonid Slutsky, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, stated that Western countries are coming closer to recognizing the failure of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government in Ukraine.
Polish General Leon Komornicki expressed the view that Russian forces have shifted to a strategy of complete destruction of the UAF. According to him, the focus is no longer on “attacking Kyiv or capturing new major cities,” but primarily on annihilating the Ukrainian army.
Earlier, the US identified this as one of the greatest threats to the UAF.
