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30/10/2023–|Last updated: 10/30/202307:36 PM (Mecca time)
The Ukrainian army announced on Monday that it had struck a Russian air defense system in… Crimea On Sunday night, the Russian army said it destroyed eight Storm Shadow cruise missiles launched by it. Ukraine On targets on the peninsula.
The Ukrainian Army Strategic Communications Center said on Telegram that its armed forces “successfully struck” a strategic location of the air defense system on the western coast of Crimea,” without giving further explanations.
There was no comment from the Russian authorities in this regard, but the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it had destroyed 8 Ukrainian “Storm Shadow” cruise missiles that targeted the peninsula.
Ukraine previously announced in mid-October that it had successfully used, for the first time, missiles with a range of up to 165 kilometers, which it had supplied. United StateIn light of the increase in Ukrainian attacks against Russian territory in recent months
The Crimean Peninsula plays a strategic role in Russian military operations in the ongoing war, whether supplying Russian forces in southern Ukraine or carrying out missile strikes from the sea.
Bakhmut forehead
On the other hand, a Ukrainian military commander said on Monday that Russia is largely mobilizing its forces around the city Bakhmut In the east of the country, it shifted its forces from a defensive position to carrying out “active operations.”
“In the Bakhmut region, the enemy has significantly strengthened its concentrations and switched from defense to active operations,” General Oleksandr Sirsky, commander of the Ground Forces, wrote on the Telegram application, noting that Russian forces “suffered heavy losses,” in statements that Reuters said it could not independently verify. about it.
Last May, Russia took control of Bakhmut, which witnessed some of the bloodiest battles in the 20-month-old war, while Ukraine has been launching an attack since June to try to regain those lands that it describes as occupied.
“Nuclear confrontation”
For his part, the Russian Defense Minister warned Sergey Shoigu Today, the United States and the West are escalating the ongoing war between his country and Ukraine, indicating that this may open the door to a direct military confrontation between the nuclear powers, accusing the United States of escalating geopolitical tensions with the aim of continuing its global hegemony, according to him.
Shoigu added in statements during the Xiangshan International Security Forum in the Chinese capital Beijing“The Western allies and the United States threaten Russia by expanding NATO’s borders.”NATOFrom the east, referring to Ukraine, indicating that Moscow is open to negotiations regarding the war in Ukraine “according to the correct conditions,” as he put it.
