That is according to a latest the U.K. Defense Ministry’s Defense Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine.
According to the update, over the last seven days, Russia has likely increased its armored assaults around the Donetsk region town of Marinka, 20km south-west of Donetsk city.
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“Russia continues to give a high priority to resourcing operations in the broader Donetsk sector, including the Marinka and Avdiivka areas, expending significant resources for minimal gains,” the U.K. Defense Ministry’s Defense Intelligence update said.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine downed russian Su-25 Grach aircraft near Maryinka
Marinka has been largely destroyed as a result of Russia’s full-scale invasion, with no civilians living in the town since November last year.
It commands the approaches to Donetsk and the critical H15 road linking the eastern city occupied since 2014 and the city of Zaporizhzhia.
We will remind you that Maryinka is a former district center southwest of Donetsk. As of 2015, almost 10,000 people lived there. As of the beginning of November 2022, there is no civilian population left in Marinka. How Maryinka changed during the war and how it looked before the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russia - see in the video Ukrainer:
As Defense Express reported earlier, The UK Defense Intelligence Said Actions of russians in Bakhmut Area Become More Intense. We also wrote that Ukrainian Ground Forces' Commander Said Near Dozen Russian UAVs Shot Down in Bakhmut Area in the Week.
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