In Ukraine, the army is retreating but wants to make people pay dearly for each square meter of lost land

Kiev

Russian troops entered the town of Toretsk at the start of the week, and fighting is raging in this stronghold, bitterly contested by the two armies. A week earlier, it was Vuhledar, surrounded, which fell 80 kilometers further south, despite fierce resistance from its defenders. Since the start of 2024, Ukrainian troops have been retreating and losing ground. Marinka was the first city to fall in January 2024, followed by Avdiivka, this industrial city which locked the center of the Donetsk oblast. Now, it is the city of Pokrovsk, an important road and rail hub, which is threatened.

After long months of positional warfare during which the front line changed little, Ukraine is once again losing ground, overwhelmed by the incessant assaults of Russian troops, who, village after city, are overcoming the Ukrainian defenses. , but at the cost of large losses. Taking advantage of his superiority…