For the second week now, Russia has been trying to capture Vuhledar, located at the junction of the eastern front in the Donetsk region and the southern front in the Zaporozhye region.. Near Ugledar is the only railway line linking Donbass and Crimea: the capture of the city would allow Moscow to more easily transfer troops between the southern and eastern fronts of the war, writes The New York Times.

Russia is moving thousands of troops to southeastern Ukraine to secure a key supply line between Donbass and Crimea. It is strategically important for Moscow to limit the ability of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to threaten supplies - there is only one way to do this - by capturing and occupying Vuhledar, which is just " "

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In addition to establishing control over the entire Donbas, Moscow intends to maintain control over the overland route to Crimea, and Kyiv’s hold on Ugledar threatens both goals..

The Ukrainian military said they had repulsed the latest attacks, but warned that Russian forces, reinforced by newly mobilized soldiers, were trying to surround the city..

" They managed to advance to some nearby villages, but the Ukrainian military pushed them back to their previous positions," According to him, the fighting has already damaged almost all the buildings of Ugledar, the entire infrastructure.

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Ugledar got its name from the mine on its outskirts.. A cluster of high-rise residential complexes rising up from the empty plain to higher ground gives the defenders a clear advantage.

In November, the 155th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade of the Russian Pacific Fleet was assigned to lead the assault on Ugledar, which reportedly led to disastrous results.. Mediazona, an independent Russian publication that keeps track of Russian war dead, published an interview with a Russian marine who said more than 200 soldiers had died in just three days.. Reports of the defeat received enough publicity for the Kremlin to issue a purported denial. Three months after the unsuccessful assault, Russian troops are trying to attack Ugledar again.

As of Saturday they were forced to regroup.

Meanwhile, the sad anniversary of the full-scale invasion of the Russian army into Ukraine on February 24, 2022 is approaching.. And with it, the anniversary of the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating a special tribunal for the crime of aggression of the Russian and Belarusian leadership. Erik Kucherenko tells how such a protracted process takes place in the article “How Ukraine brings the creation of a tribunal that will condemn Putin \u0026 Ko” closer.