Ukraine continues to hit targets within the Russian Federation and managed to damage several fuel tanks in the Rostov region last night with a drone attack, but the Russian forces maintain the initiative on the battlefield and continue to gain ground on the eastern front.

According to the Russian authorities, the attack has caused a fire in the aforementioned infrastructures in the southern Russian city of Azov.

Anonymous sources from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) have claimed the attack in statements to several Ukrainian media. According to these sources, the attacked infrastructures belong to two different oil product companies. One of them has up to 22 fuel tanks.

According to Russian Telegram channels, Azov’s neighbors heard explosions near the port and the train station, where oil facilities are located. Those same Telegram channels have published a video of a large column of fire and smoke rising towards the sky of the city of Azov.

In recent months, Kiev has attacked numerous refineries and other oil infrastructures within the Russian Federation with its own-made drones, in an attempt to decimate the Russian war economy and deprive the Russian Army fighting in Ukraine of some of the fuel it needs.

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The United States has publicly expressed its disagreement with these attacks for fear of Russian reprisals and that they will destabilize the international oil market.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian General Staff has reported that the axis of the Pokrovsk front, in the eastern region of Donetsk, remains the hottest area in the entire contact zone due to constant Russian attacks.

In the middle of the day, “the Russian occupants” had tried to “15 times improve their positions” in the direction of the city of Pokrovsk, which is still in the hands of Ukraine.

According to the influential Ukrainian Telegram channel DeepState, which reports daily on the course of the war, Russian forces advanced in the last few hours along with the towns of Umanske, Arjangelske and Sokol, all of them in the Donetsk region.

In their report on Tuesday’s war, British military intelligence talks about the “probable” conquest by Russian troops of the town of Novooleksandrivka, 20 kilometers north of the occupied Avdivka (Donetsk).

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“The area has experienced intense fighting throughout 2024 and Russia has gradually advanced since the capture of Avdivka in February 2024,” the British report reads.

According to London’s military intelligence, the capture of Novooleksandrivka brings Russia closer to a vital road for the supply of Ukrainian forces in the east.

The Russian authorities have been reporting in recent days and weeks of the improvement of positions and the seizure of several villages by their troops.

Ukraine lost the initiative at the front in September last year after having exhausted its counter-offensive with modest advances that in some cases have been reversed by Russia.

After almost half a year with hardly any supplies from the United States, Kiev began to receive new military aid from Washington financed with the expected package of more than 60 billion dollars approved by Congress in April, the ratification of which was delayed for more than six months due to the resistance of a part of the Republican Party.

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Despite the arrival of new weapons and quantities of ammunition for artillery vital to correct the dramatic disadvantage that Ukraine suffered in this chapter for months, Kiev has not been able for the moment to stop enemy advances or recover the initiative.

For his part, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, expressed his concern about the deterioration of the situation in Ukraine after two and a half years of conflict and particularly denounced the situation in Kharkov, where the recent Russian land offensive “has destroyed entire communities.”

Kharkov, the second largest city in Ukraine, is located in the east of the country, close to the Russian-occupied regions of Donetsk and Lugansk, in the Donbas.