War in Ukraine: Russia continues its advance, drones on Moscow, Blinken soon in kyiv… Update on the situation

Une femme est morte dans la périphérie de Moscou après une attaque de drones ukrainiens. MAXPPP – YURI KOCHETKOV

Tous les jours, Midi Libre fait le point sur la situation en Ukraine. Ce mardi 10 septembre, découvrez les dernières actualités autour du conflit.

While Iran was indirectly at the heart of the conflict in Ukraine on Tuesday, with the United States announcing sanctions against the regime, believing it had proof that it had supplied long-range missiles to Russia, on the ground, the day was again marked by an advance by Moscow's troops in the Donetsk region.

The Russian army claimed responsibility for taking the town of Krasnogorivka (15,000 inhabitants before the war) and three villages in the Donetsk region. With fewer troops, Ukraine is finding it increasingly difficult to contain the attacks of its adversary, whose priority target remains, for the time being, the city of Pokrovsk, a logistical hub.

An intensification of Russian attacks

The Ukrainian general staff also mentions an intensification of Russian assaults. The army repelled 14 of them in the Kurakhove sector and as many in the Pokrovsk sector on Tuesday. The day before, it counted nearly a hundred in the two cities. According to Radio Svoboda, relayed by our colleagues at Le Monde, the Ukrainian defenders of Kurakhove also reported offensives by large mechanized columns, which has become rare elsewhere than in the direction of Pokrovsk.

A Ukrainian drone attack on Russia

Russia, for its part, claims to have intercepted 144 Ukrainian drones on the night of Monday to Tuesday. "72 drones [were intercepted] over the Bryansk region, 20 over the Moscow region, 14 over the Kursk region, 13 over the Tula region, eight over the Belgorod region, seven over the Kaluga region, five over the Voronezh region, four over the Lipetsk region and one over the Orel region, the Russian Defense Ministry said. Moscow said one of its attacks had killed a 46-year-old woman whose building was allegedly hit by one of these drones on the outskirts of the capital, several hundred kilometers from the front.