On the 91st day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this Wednesday, May 25, follow live the latest information on the conflict which entered its fourth month yesterday.
► Moscow has blocked the RFI website, which broadcasts information in fifteen languages including Russian. An alternative URL allows access to the site by French and in Russian. RFI in Russian is also available on Telegram: https://t.me/RFI_Ru via a VPN and in Russia in French via satellite on Hotbird.
► RFI’s Russian editorial site broadcasts Ukrainian public radio (in the Ukrainian language) from home page.
The main points:
► The war in Ukraine entered Tuesday, May 24 in her fourth month.
► The situation on the ground in the Luhansk regionin eastern Ukraine, where the Russian army has made progress in recent days, ” getting worse hour by hour », regional governor Serguiï Gaïdaï said on Tuesday. The Russian troops are indeed concentrating their offensive on the last pocket of resistance in the Donbass.
► Ukrainian forces are now shelling Russian positions with western artillery systems newly transported, a spokesman for the Ukrainian army told AFP.
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04:00: The Russian army intends to “destroy everything in the Donbass”, says Zelensky
The Russian army is trying at all costs to tighten its grip on the region of Luhansk, in the Donbass, where it has intensified its offensive with the aim of ” destroy everything according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. ” In the Luhansk region, the Russians are advancing in all directions at once “, said Wednesday the regional governor Serguiï Gaïdaï, on Telegram. “ The situation in the Donbass is extremely difficult “, admitted for his part Tuesday evening President Zelensky. “ All the forces that the Russian army still has were thrown there for the offensive ” because they ” want to destroy everything “, he said.
Moscow has decided to intensify its offensive in the Donbass, formed by the regions of Luhansk and Donetsk, which the Ukrainians are struggling to defend, after having moved Russian forces away from the country’s two largest cities, kyiv and Kharkiv (northeast) . It is in particular to defend the Donbass, partially controlled since 2014 by pro-Russian separatists, from an alleged “ genocide that Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the February 24 invasion of Ukraine. ” We will continue the special military operation until all goals are achieved Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu insisted on Tuesday. He also pointed out that Moscow is preparing to carry out a long offensive in Ukraine.
The regional governor of Donbass reported ” increasingly intense bombardment and asserted that ” the Russian army aims to completely destroy Severodonetsk », a strategic town northwest of Luhansk. ” We are an outpost that holds back the assault and will. Despite the superiority of the enemy army, we will win, because we are fighting for our land “, launched Serguiï Gaïdaï, comparing the situation in the region of Luhansk to that of the province of Mariupol.
