Russia’s targets in Ukraine now extend beyond eastern Donbas, says Russian foreign minister government. “It’s very intense, a lot of violence: tens of thousands of artillery rounds every 24 hours, a lot of casualties on both sides, a lot of destruction of towns, etc,” he said. However, he pointed out that the war is very intense. Following Russia’s 90-day campaign to focus on conquering the Donbas region, Russian forces have gained “very, very little” ground, he told reporters. Some days you can take a kilometer or two away from the Russians, but not much more than that,” Milley added. The changes of territory between the Ukrainian and Russian forces in the Donbas region “are literally measured in hundreds of meters. The Ukrainians are making the Russians pay for every inch of territory they gain,” he said on Wednesday. “To answer his question about ‘is Donbas lost?’ No, it is not lost yet.
“The bottom line is that the cost is very high, the gains are very low, there is a war of attrition going on in the Luhansk region, Donbas,” Milley said. Ukraine-Russia war video recap: July 19 15:36 Donbas region ‘not lost yet’ to Russian forces, says top US general Ukraine’s Donbas region ‘not lost yet’ at the hands of Russian forces, said the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, during a press conference at the Pentagon following a virtual meeting of the Contact Group on Ukraine. The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said on Wednesday that a complete cut off of Russian gas was a “likely scenario”. The “Save Gas for a Safe Winter” plan sets a target for the 27 member states to reduce their gas demand by 15% between August and March next year. A bit of context: On Wednesday, the European Union announced plans to ration gas until next spring, fearing that Russia could drastically cut off the flow of natural gas to the continent.
Before the pipeline was shut down, Gazprom was only delivering 40% of its capacity following a dispute over the repair of a key gas turbine. of the German network, Klaus Mueller, said on Twitter on Wednesday that Gazprom had scheduled deliveries on Thursday of only 30% of the pipeline’s capacity. Thursday’s reading showed that 21,388,236 kWh/h of gas was sent through the pipeline between 1 a.m. Nord Stream 1 had been closed for 10 days of scheduled maintenance, and it was feared that Russia would not resume deliveries once the work was completed. It may take some time to reach the nominated transportation volume,” a spokesperson for Nord Stream 1 told CNN on Thursday. “We are in the process of resuming gas transportation through the pipeline.
Russia resumes gas flow to Germany, but well below capacity Russian state energy giant Gazprom has resumed shipments of gas via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany, according to data on the operator’s website. See the main news of the Russian war in Ukraine this Thursday, July 21.
In addition, Ukrainian officials said Russian forces are trying “around the clock” to break through defensive lines in the eastern Donetsk region while targeting the “main objective” of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk. Russia has goals beyond Donbas, says Lavrov 2:28 (CNN Spanish) - Just one day after the European Union announced plans to rationalize gas, Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom resumed gas shipments through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany.
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