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full screen Recently, Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine has been turned into ruins by Russian attacks, in the style of places like Avdijivka and Bakhmut in the past. Photo: Ukrainian Police Via AP/TT
Another Ukrainian military warns that Russia is gaining ground in eastern Ukraine at the same time as the Russians are building up their forces in the Donetsk region there.
– The enemy is attacking us along the entire front line and has achieved some success in several places, said Nazar Voloshyn, spokesman for the Ukrainian military in the eastern part of the country, on Ukrainian television.
– The situation changes all the time, he emphasized.
He claims that Ukraine, however, is keeping its defenses intact on most front sections against Russian units that are currently larger than Ukrainian ones and have better equipment. At the same time, the Ukrainian units are doing what they can to build fortifications along the approximately 1,000 kilometer long front line.
If Russia succeeds in breaking the front in Ukraine, it cannot be ruled out that it may be appropriate to send French troops to the area, according to French President Emmanuel Macron.
Macron attracted attention with a similar statement earlier this year and now, in response to a question in an interview with the British magazine The Economist, stands by his view.
– If Russia decides to go further, we must all at least ask ourselves that question, he says in an interview.
He describes the outcome as “a strategic wake-up call for my colleagues”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy states that in April alone, Russia fired over 300 robots and missiles, as many drones and over 3,200 different forms of targeted bombs at Ukraine.