Voloshyn names cities in Donetsk region where fighting continues in urban areas

Voloshyn names cities in Donetsk region where fighting continues in urban areas

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Fighting continues in Kurakhove, Toretsk and Chasovyi Yar in the urban areas. The occupiers have changed their tactics and are trying to block the logistics of Ukrainian defenders instead of frontal assaults.

Fighting continues in Kurakhove, Toretsk and Chasovyi Yar in Donetsk region. This was reported on Monday, December 23, by the spokesman of the Khortytsia military command Nazar Voloshyn during a telethon, UNN reports .

Fighting continues in urban areas in the towns of Kurakhove, Toretsk and Chasiv Yar. As for the tactics of assaults, the enemy is trying to break through to these settlements, and in some of them it is already conducting urban battles. It is fighting because it is an urban area and in order to avoid frontal assaults, the occupiers have abandoned such tactics as storming the settlements head-on

- Voloshyn said.

According to him, the Russians are trying to block transportation arteries and cut off logistics from Ukrainian defenders.

Addendum

The General Staff reported today, on December 23, in the morning, that 234 combat engagements took place on the frontline over the past day, most of them in the Vremivsk sector, and fighting in the city's urban area continues in Kurakhove .

On December 16, the spokesperson for the Luhansk operational and tactical group, Anastasia Bobovnikova, reported that complex urban battles were taking place in Toretsk in Donetsk region, and the situation there was difficult.