Russian forces reach another key frontline city, Ukraine's military says

8/10/2024 12:37

        Russian forces have entered the outskirts of the eastern Ukraine frontline city of Toretsk, Ukraine's military said late on Monday, less than a week after the fall of the nearby bastion town of Vuhledar.
        
        "The situation is unstable, fighting is taking place literally at every entrance (to the city)," Anastasiia Bobovnikova, spokesperson of the Operational Tactical Group "Luhansk" told Ukraine's national broadcaster.
        
        "The Russians have entered the eastern outskirts of the city."
        
        Russia, which controls now just under a fifth of Ukrainian territory, has been advancing towards Toretsk since August, taking village by village with infantry aided by the increased use of the highly destructive guided bombs.
        
        With Ukraine now losing more and more territory, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has ordered his top brass do "everything that can be done" to minimise Moscow's advance along the frontline.