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Russian stuff blowing up: Big battle brewing near Dobropilla
Daily Kos • • world
Key Points:
- Ukraine has targeted three Russian oil refineries in the past three days, including strikes on facilities in Samara and Bashkortostan, while Russia launched a severe attack on Dnipro and destroyed another historic building.
- Russian forces are attempting to break through Ukrainian defensive lines in the Donbas region, focusing on a vulnerable gap between Dobropilla and Drujkivka, where Ukrainian troops are heavily outnumbered and facing overwhelming strikes.
- The battle for Kostiantynivka remains in stalemate, with most Russian units redeployed to the area between Drujkivka and Dobropilla to exploit weaknesses in Ukraine’s intermediate defensive lines before winter.
- Russia’s potential breakthrough could give it control over one of three key supply roads to Donbas and enable attacks on strategic cities from behind Ukrainian lines, despite heavy losses.
- The EU extended sanctions on Russia for three more years but removed two oligarchs from the list under pressure from France and Slovakia, while concerns grow over Turkey’s ambitions amid the conflict and geopolitical instability.
