Section: The Centre for Eastern Studies (Poland)
Russia’s attack on Ukraine: day 54
On 18 April, the authorities and the highest command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that a Russian offensive, which President Volodymyr Zelensky described as the Battle for Donbas, began in the morning hours in the east of the country. The fighting is taking place mainly in the Slobozhansky and Donetsk directions, with the aggressor also...
Terror, pacification, occupation. Russia’s actions in the occupied territories of Ukraine
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has put the problem of how to manage the territories it has occupied onto the agenda. The first phase of the land operation did not lead to the capture of any significant areas, destroy the enemy’s army, force the Ukrainian government to flee Kyiv or suppress civil resistance, so it ended in failure...
Russia’s attack on Ukraine: day 50
Russian troops are continuing preparations for an offensive operation in eastern Ukraine. To this end, they are relocating subunits of the 36th Combined Arms Army (CAA) of the Eastern Military District (MD) from the Gomel Oblast, increasing the air grouping and decontaminating stored arms and military equipment. Additional subunits from the 8th...
Russia’s attack on Ukraine: day 49
On the evening of 13 April, Ukrainian media reported that two Neptun missiles hit the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet – the missile cruiser ‘Moskva’. The missiles for the RK-360MC Neptun system, serial production of which was just beginning (the first subdivision in experimental and combat mode went into service in 2021), were to be...
Russia’s attack on Ukraine: day 48
According to the Ukrainian account, in the forty-eighth day of the war the military situation has not changed fundamentally. On the Slobodskoye direction the partial blockade and shelling of Kharkiv continued (the defenders were to succeed on the northern – Derhachi – and eastern – Rohan – directions of the city’s defence). …read more...
Russia’s attack on Ukraine: day 43
According to the General Staff, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are inflicting losses on the enemy and gradually pushing them out of the occupied territories. The local military-civil administration reported the complete liberation of the Sumy Oblast. According to the Operational Command ‘East’, six enemy attacks were repulsed in the Kharkiv...
Russia’s attack on Ukraine: day 41
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine provided further information on the situation on the front after 41 days of Russian aggression, focusing on the losses and problems of the invaders and the successes of the Ukrainian army. …read more Source:: Centre for Eastern Studies...
Medvedev escalates anti-Ukrainian rhetoric
On 5 April, Dmitri Medvedev, Vice-Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, posted a post on his Telegram channel entitled “On Fakes and True History”. The text included the following phrases: – reports of Russian war crimes are “fake cynical Ukrainian propaganda” prepared for “huge money” by “troll factories” under the...
Russia’s attack on Ukraine: day 35
Authorities in Ukraine and Western countries are signalling the withdrawal of some Russian forces from occupied areas in the Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy oblasts. The aggressor’s troops are said to be moving away to the north of Kyiv, as well as moving into Belarus. According to the Pentagon, around 20% of the units so far engaged in the north...
Russia’s attack on Ukraine: day 33
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine noted for the first time the intensification by the enemy of strikes on fuel depots. It also pointed to the problems involved – not only logistical, but also humanitarian. After 33 days of war, Russian forces are to continue to be held back in all directions and Ukrainian forces to carry out...
