NEAR MARINKA — Ukraine said on Tuesday the last 24 hours were the deadliest of the war so far for Russian forces as Moscow pressed on with an intensifying…
The Ukrainian claim of more than 1,000 Russian troops killed over a day could not be independently verified, and Russia has also claimed to have killed large numbers of Ukrainian troops in recent weeks.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
A new U.S. package of weapons is expected to include longer-range rockets, which would give Ukraine the ability to hit Russian supply lines in all of the territory it occupies in Ukraine’s mainland and parts of the Crimea Peninsula. “The U.S. and its allies are trying to prolong the conflict as much as possible,” Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday in a conference call with military officials.
Separately, Russia demanded that the U.S. embassy in Moscow stop spreading what Moscow regards as fake news about the military operation in Ukraine and has threatened to expel U.S. diplomats, the TASS news agency reported on Tuesday.Article contentThe Ukrainian military increased its running tally of Russian military dead by 1,030 overnight to 133,190, describing the increase as the highest of the war so far and among 1,900 over two days.
“They storm in small infantry groups, trying to creep in further and further,” said a soldier who gave his name only as Ievhen. “The enemy adapted quite well, they learn as fast as we do. They adopted different kinds of tactics,” he added. After Russia failed to capture the Ukrainian capital Kyiv last year and lost ground in the second half of 2022, Moscow is now making full use of hundreds of thousands of troops it called up in its first mobilization since World War Two.Article content
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