DONETSK REGION, Ukraine: For Ukrainian gun commander Oleksandr Kozachenko, the long-awaited US ammunition cannot come fast enough as he and his comrades struggle to hold off relentless Russian attacks.
Ukrainian service members of the 37th Marine Brigade fire a 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer toward Russia n troops, amid Russia 's attack on Ukraine , in a front line in Southern Ukraine on Mar 30, 2024.
The drive has marked an inflexion point in the conflict spawned by Russia's full-scale invasion more than two years ago. Russia's defence ministry didn't respond to a request for comment for this article, while Ukraine's military didn't immediately respond.to break Ukrainian lines in the east. This echoed the commander of Ukraine's ground forces who said last week he expected the war to enter a critical phase over the next two months as Moscow tries to exploit persistent delays in weapons supplies to Kyiv.
"We live only for today," said 31-year-old school teacher Nina Shyshymarieva, standing with her young daughter outside a church in Kostiantynivka as artillery thundered in the distance.Russian cannons are now easily within range of Kostiantynivka; the closest Russian position at the start of 2024 was about 20km away, according to open-source maps that show shifting positions along the frontline. Now it is 14km.
"Wherever the front line is approaching, people in those places are trying to leave as soon as possible," said Stasenko, adding that his group, East SOS, evacuates around two dozen a week, many of them elderly or infirm. A major highway leading west out of Kostiantynivka is already under threat. Cutting it off entirely would mean transit hubs further north, including Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, both numbering well over 100,000 people before the war, would lose a crucial supply line., which began on Friday, also risks diverting stretched Ukrainian forces from the eastern front, further compromising their ability to hold the line, according to said Emil Kastehelmi, another analyst at Black Bird Group.
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