Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks throughout an interview at the Commonwealth of Independent States’ Head of States Meeting at the Ala-Archa State Residence on October 13, 2023 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
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President Vladimir Putin stated Russian forces have actually strengthened their positions throughout the whole cutting edge in Ukraine after what he stated was the failure of Ukraine’s counteroffensive this year.
Putin’s choice in 2022 to send out 10s of countless soldiers into Ukraine began a war that has actually left swathes of Ukraine ravaged and numerous countless individuals dead or hurt.
Russia presently manages about 17.5% of Ukrainian area and a four-month-old Ukrainian counteroffensive this year by Ukrainian forces has actually made practically no net territorial gains, according to Western analyses of the area held by Russia.
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While Ukraine reclaimed area taken by Russia in 2015, the Ukrainian army has actually had a hard time to permeate Russian lines which have actually been strengthened with minefields and countless additional Russian soldiers.
“As for the counteroffensive, which is allegedly stalling, it has failed completely,” Putin stated in video remarks published to social networks by Kremlin reporter Pavel Zarubin.
“The opposing side is preparing new active offensive operations. We see it and we know it,” Putin stated when inquired about the fight for the eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka.
Both Russia and the United States have actually explained the rise of combating around Avdiivka as a brand-new Russian offensive.
“What is taking place now along the whole length of the [line of] contact is called ‘an active defense’,” Putin stated. “And our troops are improving their position at almost the entire area. Quite a large area.”
According to the Belfer Center at Harvard, Ukraine made a net gain of 8 square miles of area in the month toOct 10.
The dispute in eastern Ukraine started in 2014 after a pro-Russian president was fallen in Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution and Russia annexed Crimea, with Russian- backed forces combating Ukraine’s militaries.
