As it searches for vulnerabilities along the war’s roughly 1,000-kilometer front line, particularly in the eastern regions that would be the main target of Moscow’s military operation before winter hits, Russia has claimed to have taken control of the settlement of Levadne in southern Ukraine.
On Monday, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that its troops had “liberated” the settlement and taken up stronger positions nearby.
Officials from Ukraine remained silent over Levadne’s alleged capture. But at the end of last week, they had already reported that the Russian army was gathering forces there and launching local attacks.
The Russians took Levadne, in the Zaporizhzhia region, early in the full-scale conflict that started on February 24, 2022, but Ukrainian forces were able to retake the city during a counteroffensive in the summer of 2023.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated in his nightly speech that North Korea was backing Moscow and that he had been briefed on Russia’s preparations to attack Ukraine in the autumn and winter.
Deaths in the South
Three individuals have died in southern Ukraine as a result of Russian attacks.
Russia “attacked a civilian car with a drone,” according to governor Oleksandr Prokudin on Telegram, killing two women in the southern Kherson region, ages 72 and 56.
According to authorities, there was one fatality and eight injuries from Russian shelling on the port of Odessa.
Both civilian ships and a cargo ship flying the flag of Palau were damaged in the Odessa attack, Oleksiy Kuleba, the deputy prime minister of Ukraine, stated on Telegram that the cargo ship was hit “for the second time” in two weeks.
He said that a grain warehouse was among the port facilities damaged by the attack.
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