War in Ukraine: Moscow: Offensive in the Ukrainian area of ​​Dnipropetrovsk

According to the non -verifiable information from the Ministry of Defense in Moscow, the Russian army has now supposedly also pushed into the Ukrainian area of ​​Dnipropetrovsk. Units of the 90th tank division had reached the western border of the Donetsk area and “further develop their offensive on the territory of the Dnipropetrovsk area,” said the Ministry.

The Ukrainian general staff in Kyiv contradicted the Russian representation. “The information does not correspond to the facts,” said a representative of the general staff in an interview with Ukrainian media. “The enemy has not entered the Dnipropetrovsk region.”

In May, Kremlin -close bloggers reported that the Russian troops had reached the administrative limit of the Dnipropetrovsk area. The military governor Serhij Lyssak described this there as a falconer. The enemy spreads such false reports “to frighten people in our region, to spread panic and destabilize the situation,” he said in May.

On the other hand, independent war experts believed that the russians penetrate into the area. For Moscow, however, this has more of a propaganda and psychological value and no military benefits, because in the area on the border with Donetsk, it was said.

Medvedev: Ukraine gets new reality on the ground

Ukraine was warned in the recent direct negotiations on the termination of the war, said the Vice Chair of the Russian National Security Council, Dmitri Medvedev. Kiev had the choice of getting involved in the loss of the four areas of Donetsk, Luhansk, Cherson and Saporischschja – or losing further areas when the fights continued. “If you do not want to recognize the reality of the war during the negotiations, you will receive a new reality on the ground,” wrote the ex-Kremlin chief at Telegram. “Our forces started the offensive in the Dnipropetrovsk area.”

Russia had asked Ukraine to deduct its troops from the parts of the four annexed regions that are not controlled by Russia and then step into peace negotiations. The Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj categorically rejected a waiver of areas for a peace conclusion with Russia.

In the more than three years of the Russian attack war against Ukraine, the Dnipropetrovsk region was repeated with the area capital Dnipro’s goal of air strikes.