The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced that Ukrainian soldiers entered the city of Port in the Donetsk region.
In the statement made on the social media account of the ministry, the statement “Ukrainian Air Strike Forces enters the Port of Donetsk region. The Ukrainian army has always had and will have the decisive vote in any ‘referendum’ today and in the future.”
In the statement, the image showing the Ukrainian soldiers hanging the Ukrainian flag on the port city sign was also shared.
Russia annexed the cities of Kherson, Zaporizhia, Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.
In the images on social media, it is seen that the Ukrainian forces are advancing towards the port city, there are many Russian battleships destroyed on the roadside, the bodies of Russian soldiers, and a bridge leading to the city is destroyed.
Sergey Cherevatiy, Representative of the Eastern Group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said in a statement, “The information and video you have seen is correct. We are already in the port, but the clashes continue.”
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The Russian Ministry of Defense also said, “Due to the threat of siege, allied troops withdrew from Krasny Port settlement to more advantageous places.” made the statement.
Sergiy Hayday, Head of the Luhanks Regional Administration of Ukraine, said that nearly 5,000 Russian soldiers were besieged in the city of Liman and that the Ukrainian forces were holding almost all the ways out of the city.
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The leader of Chechnya, Ramazan Kadyrov, an ally of Russia, made the assessment that “After the port defeat, Russia should consider using low-capacity nuclear weapons.”