The top commander of Ukraine’s armed forces, Lt. Gen. Valery Zaluzny, announced today that Ukrainian soldiers had withdrawn “to the periphery” of Marinka, a commune in Donetsk that Moscow said yesterday it had taken under its control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The fact that we have moved towards the Marinka region and that, in some places, we have already exceeded the community’s boundaries, should not cause a general outcry,” Zaluzny said at a press conference he gave. According to the lieutenant general, Ukrainian soldiers are still in the northern part of this city but “they have prepared a line of defense outside the community” to which they will be deployed. Marinka “doesn’t exist anymore,” he added, because of the extensive destruction it suffered from the fighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Russia announced yesterday that it had taken control of this city, which is five kilometers southwest of Donetsk. Marinka had been turned into a stronghold by the Ukrainian military since 2014, when clashes with pro-Russian Donbas separatists began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the capture of Marinka, which he said removes Ukrainian artillery from Donetsk and will allow Russian forces to have a “larger operational space” in the zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Zaluzny estimated that Russia “today has the power to concentrate its efforts on the destruction of a city like Bakhmut within three months. I fully understand that our fighters are doing a very difficult job under extremely difficult conditions,” he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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