{"id":10399,"date":"2022-04-19T10:16:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T09:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyleaks.com\/?p=10399"},"modified":"2022-04-19T10:23:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T09:23:30","slug":"russia-launches-battle-of-donbas-on-eastern-front-ukraine-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyleaks.com\/russia-launches-battle-of-donbas-on-eastern-front-ukraine-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia launches &#8216;Battle of Donbas&#8217; on eastern front, Ukraine says"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"summary__summary__3oBN8\">\n<li class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__medium__1kbOh text__body__yKS5U body__base__22dCE body__body_alt__2kEQu summary__point__eci4G\">Russian forces attack along most of front line in east<\/li>\n<li class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__medium__1kbOh text__body__yKS5U body__base__22dCE body__body_alt__2kEQu summary__point__eci4G\">Zelenskiy says Ukrainian forces will fight on<\/li>\n<li class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__medium__1kbOh text__body__yKS5U body__base__22dCE body__body_alt__2kEQu summary__point__eci4G\">U.S. President Biden to talk to allies about help for Ukraine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">Russian forces tried to push through Ukrainian defences along almost the entire front line in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, launching what President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called the &#8220;Battle of the Donbas&#8221; &#8211; the long-awaited second phase of the war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">A &#8220;very large part of the entire Russian army is now focused on this offensive,&#8221; Zelenskiy said in a video address overnight. &#8220;No matter how many Russian troops they send there, we will fight. We will defend ourselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">Zelenskiy&#8217;s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, assured Ukrainians their forces could hold off the offensive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-3\">&#8220;Believe in our army, it is very strong,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-4\">Driven back by Ukrainian forces in March from an assault on Kyiv in the north, Russia has poured troops in to the east to regroup for a ground offensive in two provinces known as the Donbas. It has also been launching long-distance strikes at other targets including the capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-5\">There was no immediate comment from Russia&#8217;s defence ministry on the latest fighting. The governor of the Russian province of Belgorod said Ukrainian forces had struck a border village wounding one resident.\u00a0<a class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__medium__1kbOh text__large__nEccO link__underline_default__2prE_\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/russian-official-says-ukraine-strikes-village-near-border-one-wounded-2022-04-19\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-6\">Ukrainian media reported explosions, some powerful, along the front line in the Donetsk region, with shelling taking place in Marinka, Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-7\">Blasts were also heard in Kharkiv in the northeast, Mykolaiv in the south and Zaporizhzhia in the southeast while air raid sirens were also going off in main centres near the front line, officials and media said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-8\">Ukraine&#8217;s top security official, Oleksiy Danilov, said Russian forces attempted to break through Ukrainian defences &#8220;along almost the entire front line of Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-9\">The coal and steel producing Donbas has been the focal point of Russia&#8217;s campaign to destabilise Ukraine since 2014 when the Kremlin used proxies to set up separatist &#8220;people&#8217;s republics&#8221; in Luhansk and Donetsk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/ukraine-says-russia-launches-new-eastern-offensive-with-blasts-all-along-front-2022-04-19\/\">Reuters<\/a> said Ukraine&#8217;s general staff said Russian forces aimed to establish full control over the Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson regions, while intensifying missile strikes in west Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-11\">Zelenskiy&#8217;s office said at least eight people had been killed and 13 wounding in shelling or fighting in Luhansk and Donetsk frontline towns and villages. It listed Kremennaya, Popasna, Avdiivka, Maryinka, Toretsk, Vuhledar and Lymanske.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-11\"><strong>ALSO READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thedailyleaks.com\/patients-dying-due-to-shortage-of-drugs-in-tigrays-hospitals-health-officials\/\">Patients dying due to shortage of drugs in Tigray\u2019s hospitals \u2014 Health officials<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-12\">Oleh Sinegubov, governor of Kharkiv province just north of the Donbas, said five people had been killed and 17 wounded in the past 24 hours there, from shelling and grad missiles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-13\">BIDEN TO HOST CALL WITH ALLIES<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-14\">Western countries and Ukraine accuse Russian President Vladimir Putin of unprovoked aggression. The White House said U.S. President Joe Biden, who has called Russia&#8217;s actions &#8220;genocide&#8221;, would hold a call with allies on Tuesday to discuss the crisis, including on how to coordinate on holding Russia accountable.\u00a0<a class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__medium__1kbOh text__large__nEccO link__underline_default__2prE_\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/biden-hold-call-with-allies-tuesday-over-ukraine-invasion-2022-04-18\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-15\">French President Emmanuel Macron said his dialogue with Putin had stalled after mass killings were discovered in Ukraine.\u00a0<a class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__medium__1kbOh text__large__nEccO link__underline_default__2prE_\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/frances-macron-dialogue-with-putin-has-stalled-after-discovery-massacres-ukraine-2022-04-18\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-16\">Russia denies targeting civilians in what it calls a special operation to demilitarise Ukraine and defeat nationalists. It has bombed cities to rubble and hundreds of civilian bodies have been found in towns where its forces withdrew. It says, without evidence, that those and other signs of atrocities were staged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-17\">&#8216;HELL ON EARTH&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-18\">Russia has been trying to take full control of the southeastern port city of Mariupol, which has been besieged since the war&#8217;s early days, site of the war&#8217;s heaviest fighting and worst humanitarian catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-19\">Tens of thousands of residents have been trapped in the city with no access to food or water and bodies littering the streets. Ukraine believes more than 20,000 civilians have died there. Capturing it would link pro-Russian separatist territory with the Crimea region that Moscow annexed in 2014 and free the besieging troops to attack elsewhere in the Donbas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-20\">In Russian-held districts reached by Reuters, shell-shocked residents cooked on open fires outside their damaged homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-21\">&#8220;To be honest, we are not well,&#8221; said one resident named Olga. &#8220;I have mental problems after air strikes, that&#8217;s for sure. I&#8217;m really scared. When I hear a plane I just run.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-22\">The city council said at least 1,000 civilians were still hiding in shelters beneath the vast Azovstal steel plant, which contain myriad buildings, blast furnaces and rail tracks, where defenders remain holed up.\u00a0<a class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__medium__1kbOh text__large__nEccO link__underline_default__2prE_\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/fortress-city-ukrainians-cling-steel-plant-mariupol-2022-04-15\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-23\">Major Serhiy Volyna, commander of Ukraine&#8217;s 36th marine brigade which is still fighting in Mariupol, appealed for help in a letter to Pope Francis.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-23\">&#8220;This is what hell looks like on earth &#8230; It&#8217;s time (for) help not just by prayers. 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