Russia pounds Ukraine’s front line as leak prompts questions over counteroffensive

Kyiv – Russian forces pressed assaults on front-line cities in jap Ukraine on Monday, whereas Ukrainian officers performed down a report that Kyiv is amending some plans for a counteroffensive resulting from a leak of labeled U.S. paperwork.

The Russians had been pounding Ukrainian positions round besieged Bakhmut within the jap Donetsk area, and different cities and cities, with air strikes and artillery barrages, Kyiv mentioned.

“The enemy switched to so-called scorched earth ways from Syria. It’s destroying buildings and positions with air strikes and artillery fireplace,” mentioned Colonel Common Oleksandr Syrskyi, commander of Ukraine’s floor forces, concerning Bakhmut.