Ukraine staff confirmed that he retired from the city of Sudzha, days after Russia said he had recovered it.
The recapture of the largest city occupied by Ukraine in the Russian region of Kursk is another gain in Russia’s offensive to expel the Ukrainian forces of its territory.
According to the information available, Sudzha was one of the most difficult battles of this war of more than three years. Before the offensive, the city had a population of approximately 5,000 people, but is currently very damaged.
Ukrainian military commander Oleksandr Syrskyi said Thursday that Russian airplanes had made so many attacks in the region that the city was almost completely destroyed.
“In the most difficult situation, my priority has been, and remains, saving the lives of Ukrainian soldiers. For this, the units of the Ukraine Defense Forces, if necessary, are maneuvering for more favorable positions, ”said Syrskyi.
The same day, the forces The Russians announced that they recaptured the busy city.
In recent weeks, Russian troops have recovered much of the area that Ukraine occupied after their surprise transfronist attack in the Kursk region in August last year.
The Russian region began to plan the reconstruction and development of recaptured Ukrainian control areas, said Alexander Khinshtein, the interim governor of the region on Saturday.
According to Khinshtein, the most urgent tasks imply the complete elimination of land mines and the replacement of the population at the levels prior to the entrance of the Ukrainian forces in the region.
Also on Saturday, the Russian Defense Ministry declared that its engineering units had begun to decline operations in recovered border areas.
The efforts aim to restore essential infrastructure and allow economic activities to resume after an intense fight, the ministry said in a statement.
The attacks continue on the floor of Ukraine
However, the city of Cernihiv in northern Ukraine was beaten by several Russian drones in night attacks, according to the head of the city’s military administration, Dmytro Bryzhynskyi.
Russian drones reached the high residential buildings, causing a fire erased by rescue equipment.
Bryzhynskyi also reported that a drone arrived at a damaged five stories and private houses.
Also in the Cernihiv region, a Russian ballistic missile will have fallen around the border city of Semianivka near Russia, causing a partial cut of electricity, according to the Ukrainian authorities.
In social networks, Volodymyr Zelenskyy highlighted the “hundreds of attacks against our cities and communities this week”, which reinforces that the Russian forces “launched more than 1,020 DRUNS of attack, approximately 1,360 guided air pumps and more than 10 missiles of various types” in recent days.
