The Russian army announced on Sunday the capture of the Ukrainian city of Bogdanivka, which is located in vicinity of the strategic bastion of Chasiv Yaran important crossroads in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, units of the Southern Group took command full control of said cityinhabited before the war by less than a hundred people.
Moreover, the Russian soldiers refused two counterattacks by the 93rd Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian army and improved their positions in the direction of Khasiv Yar, according to the source.
Ukraine had warned in recent weeks that that stronghold, defended by 41st Mechanized Brigadeit was Moscow’s main objective as part of its current offensive in the heart of Donbass.
For this reason, on Friday, Ukrainian President Volodmir Zelenskyj personally addressed the troops in Khasiv Yar, a stronghold that Moscow hopes to conquer by May 9thanniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany.
The capture of this crossroads will pave the way for the Russian attack on the main Ukrainian military center in Donbs. Kramatorsk, and the city of Sloviansk, where the pro-Russian uprising broke out in 2014.
In October 2023, the Russian army launched an offensive on the entire front that allowed this recover several Ukrainian strongholdsamong which Avdivka stands out, a town on the outskirts of the city of Donetsk.
However, the Russians they were unable to recover the territory in the northeastern Khrushchev region that they controlled between February and September 2022, in order to create a security belt and reduce enemy attacks and incursions against the Belgorod border region.