General Staff: Russians are trying to step further into Ukraine, but without success

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO –  MONDAY, 11 APRIL 2022, 19:04

On the Donetsk and Tavriia fronts, Russian troops are trying to advance deep into Ukraine, but they have not proved successful.

Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on Facebook, as of 6 pm today

Quote: "On the Donetsk and Tavriia fronts, Russian occupying forces tried to attack the city of Sievierodonetsk, but failed. During the shelling of Popasna, they used a ‘Tochka-U’ tactical missile system.

Attempts to advance deep into Ukraine to improve their tactical situation were unsuccessful."

Details: Russian troops are carrying out attack operations in some areas of Mariupol.

On the Slobozhanskyi front, Russians continue to partially block the city of Kharkiv, firing from multiple rocket launchers, artillery and mortars.

In the area of the city of Izium, Russian troops are trying to maintain the borders that were captured earlier.

On the Pivdennyi Buh front, occupying forces are trying to improve their tactical situation and hold positions on the administrative borders of the Kherson region.

The General Staff reported that the Russian occupying forces were trying to carry out informational and psychological measures against the residents of Kherson and the region. To do this, they distribute information bulletins which provide false information about the course of hostilities and justification of the war. They also impose registration for social benefits, including pensions, on citizens of Ukraine, in accordance with the norms and rules of the Russian Federation.

Mobile patrols and checkpoints with mobilised residents of the temporarily occupied territories of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions operate in the temporarily occupied territories of the Zaporizhzhia region. 

It is also reported that in order to quickly replenish the losses of their troops, the Russian occupying forces have announced another wave of mobilisation of men under 65 in Luhansk. Russian soldiers conduct raids on utilities and factories to identify conscripts and forcibly send them to military registration and enlistment offices.

At the same time, according to the General Staff, Alchevsk (a city which is a part of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic) lost 300 of their mobilised residents with the beginning of hostilities. More than 1,200 people have been brought to a hospital in Donetsk (governed by the Donetsk People's Republic as its capital city) since the beginning of the large-scale war.

There is information among the personnel of Russian units in the temporarily occupied Crimea that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are planning a counteroffensive in the Kherson region with the possibility of success and the intention of entering the Crimean peninsula.