Ukrainian grandmother Lidia #Lominovska was drained. The 97-year-old had walked for hours in search of safety after the Russians bombed her frontline village of #Ocheretyne.
Wearing a colorful headscarf around her wrinkled face, the frail but resilient Lominovska recounted her exhausting trek of some 10 kilometers (six miles) in the eastern #Donetsk region.
The public lynch of 115th Mechanized Brigade is unjustified and unfair.
Russian forces, in surprise to many, reached the edge of #Ocheretyne on April 18 and entered it two days later. The settlement, located north of Avdiivka, was supposed to be a Ukrainian strong point which would held the Russian advance for at least a few weeks.
Intense fighting in #Kislivka on Kypyansk axis, where ๐ท๐บ introduced new forces but so far #Ukraine ๐บ๐ฆ positions hold in spite of some ๐ท๐บ minor advances.
๐ท๐บ attempts to regain control of the Nestriga islet on #Dnipro but with no success.
๐บ๐ฆ shot down 13 #Shahed drones and 4 S-300 missiles.
๐ท๐บ continues to suffer very high daily losses (1,260 personnel since yesterday) as it slowly occupies small settlements in west #Donetsk oblast: ๐ท๐บ advanced 1km south of #Ocheretyne and 300m along the M4/E50 road.
๐ฑ๐ป begins building new defensive lines along the #Latvia-Russia border, including anti-tank ditches.
๐บ๐ฆ continues to destroy ๐ท๐บ equipment in #Krynky and made small gains east of Kozachi Laheri.
๐บ๐ฆ revealed it destroyed ๐ท๐บ warship 'Tsyklon' on May 19th, a corvette worth $33 million, carrying Kalibr missiles, in the port of #Sevastopol, #Crimea
๐ท๐บ intends to unilaterally extend its territorial waters on the #BalticSea into #NATO territorial waters in #Finland๐ซ๐ฎ and #Lithuania๐ฑ๐น
The Russian offensive in #Ocheretyne direction is worrying. Multiple villages have fallen in a rather short timeframe.
However, the overall advances are still limited mostly to a tactical level. Russians haven't achieved an actual breakthrough, but are certainly trying to.
ยซ ร 98 ans, cette Ukrainienne a parcouru 10 km ร pied pour sortir de la partie occupรฉe d'#Ocheretynรฉ#ocheretiny "J'ai survรฉcu ร une autre guerre, je survivrai ร celle-lร mais elle est pire que l'autre."Selon la police, Lidia Stepanivna marchait sans nourriture ni eau, sous les tirs, franchissant tout le front, tombant deux fois, mais elle parvint ร atteindre la zone libre. ยป