Ukraine’s military leadership acknowledged for the first time on Tuesday that Moscow’s forces have entered the Dnipropetrovsk region, a central region that has been regularly shelled during Russia’s full-scale invasion but so far has been spared from major ground battles.
“Yes, they have entered, and fighting is ongoing as of now,” Viktor Tregubov, spokesperson for the Dnipro Operational Strategic Group of Forces, told AFP.
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AFP reported that Moscow first said its forces had advanced into the region – which it has not made a formal territorial claim over – in July. It has since claimed to have captured some settlements there, the news agency reported.
Analysts from the Institute for the Study of War wrote on Tuesday that Russian military bloggers have made unconfirmed claims that Moscow’s troops have seized Andriivka-Klevtsove (northeast of Velykomykhailivka), advanced west of Voskresenka (east of Velykomykhailivka), south of Ternove and Zaporizke (both southeast of Velykomykhailivka), and near Komyshuvakha (southeast of Velykomykhailivka).
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) refuted claims on Tuesday that Russian forces seized Zaporizke and Novoheorhiivka, southwest of the pivotal city of Pokrovsk, where the fiercest fighting in Ukraine has taken place over the past month or so.
However, Ukraine’s Dnipro Group of Forces Spokesperson Colonel Viktor Tregubov reported that Russian forces entered Zaporizke and Novoheorhiivka and are attempting to gain a foothold.
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The Russian army “is now consolidating its positions, and is accumulating infantry for a further advance,” it wrote in a social media post.
Dnipropetrovsk is not one of the five Ukrainian regions – Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Crimea – that Moscow has publicly claimed as Russian territory.