Ukrainian forces were making a major effort to punch through Russian defensive lines in southeast Ukraine for a second day.
The Center for Strategic Communications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said on Telegram that Russian forces were “stepping up their information and psychological operations.”
Recent military activity, including drone attacks on Moscow, cross-border raids into Russia and sabotage and drone attacks on infrastructure behind Russian lines, has unnerved Russians. Analysts say those actions may represent the start of the counteroffensive. Ukraine could launch simultaneous pushes in different areas of the front line that stretches for around 1,100 kilometres, analysts say.
The Russian Defence Ministry said the alleged Donetsk attack started Sunday morning. It was unclear why it waited until early Monday to announce it. At least two factors have been at play in the timing: better ground conditions for the movement of troops and equipment after the winter, and the deployment of more advanced Western weapons and training of Ukrainian troops to use them.
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