Kiev [Ukraine], July 5: The Ukrainian army was forced on Thursday to abandon the easternmost part of the small town of Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region, following months of fighting.
"The positions of our defenders have been destroyed," the spokesman for the Khortytsia army grouping, Nazar Voloshyn, said according to the Interfax-Ukraine agency. It was therefore no longer tenable to hold the town's Kanal district, he said, adding that a retreat to new positions had been ordered.
Not a single intact building was left, the spokesman said, adding: "Bombardments and artillery fire have left behind a lunar landscape." A week ago, Voloshyn had said that the Ukrainian army had largely driven the Russian opponents out of the district.
The Russian army had previously announced its capture of the district and the one neighbouring it. Reports indicate that the Russian military used heavy glide bombs against Ukrainian positions. (DPA)
Source: Qatar Tribune
