The Armed Forces of Ukraine stopped another 10 attempts by the invaders to storm the border of Luhansk region and Donetsk region – Gaidai ,
Serhii Gaidai .
KYIV. UkraineGate . 9. August . 2022 | War News The Russian occupiers are using all available weapons to force the Armed Forces to concentrate their main efforts on Luhansk region and to prevent any maneuvers. Only in the past day, the Ukrainian military stopped 10 enemy attempts to storm towns and villages on the border of Luhansk region and Donetsk region. Serhiy Gaidai, the head of the Luhansk OVA, reported this in Telegram .
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“The enemy is using all available weapons to force the Armed Forces to concentrate their main efforts right here and to prevent any maneuvers. In the past day alone, our military stopped 10 attempts by the enemy to storm towns and villages on the border of Luhansk region and Donetsk region. Aviation tried to operate near eight populated areas the occupier,” Gaidai wrote.
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According to him, in addition, the Russians launched a missile strike, made two attempts at tank attacks, and damaged populated areas with mortars.
“Meanwhile, the mines of Luhansk Oblast are on the verge of closure. We are talking about coal industry enterprises in the cities captured by Russia in 2014,” Gaidai noted.
Gaidai reported that these are, in particular, Sorokyne (Krasnodon), Rovenky, Dovzhansk (Sverdlovsk).
“Almost everyone who could be sent to the front from the mines of the mentioned settlements was already mobilized at the beginning of the invasion. Now every summons is another step to the complete shutdown of enterprises. There are not enough people. Everyone knows that they will not return from the front, so new ones are taking over specializations, working part-time, work in additional shifts. There are barely enough miners to support the vital activities of the enterprises. They have reached the point where they began to invite men from neighboring regions of the Russian Federation to work. The situation is approaching a catastrophic one. Although someone claims that they have not really started yet.” , – Gaidai told.
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On the night of August 8, the Russians struck 11 times in Luhansk Oblast with artillery and MLRS.
Source: Ukrgate