The new army commander considers the situation at the front “extremely critical”.

News from the front. The new commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, Oleksandr Sirsky, announced on Wednesday 14 February that he visited the hottest areas of the Eastern Front with the Minister of Defense, Rustem Omerov. It describes the situation on the ground “Extremely complex and tense”.

“Russian occupiers continue to increase their efforts and numbers are increasing” Ukrainian forces, Oleksandr Sirsky, said on Telegram that while Ukraine struggles to replenish the ranks of its army and the country needs American military aid to counter the Russians, it is blocked. “We are doing everything possible to prevent the enemy from advancing on our territory and to maintain our position”Underlined by Oleksandr Sirsky.

“Destruction” of a Russian warship.

Almost two years after the start of the war, Ukrainian units faced strong Russian defenses, and it is now Moscow’s forces that carry out constant attacks, especially on Avdivka in the east. This workers’ town on the eastern front has become the new symbol of Ukrainian resistance, but the noose is slowly tightening and a retreat can no longer be ruled out.

Ukraine’s army also claimed on Wednesday “destroy” A Russian warship off the coast of southern Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula in the Black Sea seized by Russia in 2014. The Ukrainian Military Intelligence Service (GUR) claimed that a Ukrainian naval drone, the Magura V5, had been used to attack boats near the coastal city. Alupka and chat “Complex Holes” On its left is the boat after which “began to sink”.

According to GUR, it is one of the Russian ships “most recent”, Capable of accommodating 87 crew members and used by Russia in the 2008 war against Georgia and more recently in Syria.