Russia Eyes “Al -Hosn Al -Hosn” Ukraine after the fall of Shasif Yar Russia-Ukraine, news war

During a difficult week in the land war in Ukraine, Russian forces completed their invasion of the Yar Yar, a high ground in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine, and claimed that they violated the outskirts of Kobansk, a city with a population of a pre -war with a population of more than 26,000, in the northern Ukrene region.

Both conquests are the result of efforts for months, and the Russians are expensive in the blood and weapons.

Meanwhile, Russian forces pushed Dniproptrovsk, the Ukrainian region whose borders were violated for the first time during the weekend from June 7 to 8, where they seized the village of Sichneve, which was called Russians Yanferskoy. This was the third conquest supported by Dniproptrovsk. Earlier, Russia seized Dashnawi and Malifka.

Russia has also begun to launch uninhabited air -powered air vehicles into a deadly effect, killing 31 people in Kiev on July 31.

Ukraine has responded with deep strikes on Russian transport networks and energy centers.

Chasiv Yar and “Castle belt”

The Russian Ministry of Defense said that the parachutes exceeded Chasif Yar on July 31.

Moscow forces besieged the city in March 2024, about a month after the fall of Avdiivka, 30 km (20 miles) to the south, liberating the offensive forces.

Russia gave priority to this line from the attack after defeating the city of Bakhmeut in May 2023, after months of battles led by the Vagner Group.

Since Bakhmut fell, Russian forces invaded a prominent width 27 km (17 miles) west of it. Chasiv Yar presented a challenge and prize – a challenge because it sat a channel that formed a natural defensive barrier, and a prize because it is a view that Russia can make by wiping the remaining free zones in Donetsk.

“Chasif Yar is a major height in terms of controlling observation and combating operations,” military expert Vitaly Kisseliov told the Solofev TV network in Russia.

“For all manifestations, we will be hidden from the south and north, and we gradually burden the enemy forces and expel them, all of which, as we now carry a beneficial increase for all other settlements,” said Kiseliov.

Another Russian military expert said that the seizure of Russian forces at Chasiv Yar managed to advance towards the so -called “Castle Belt” of Ukrainian cities, to defend them in Donetsk.

“Chasiv Yar is located on top of the hill, and outside, there are very vast areas of flat terrain. The nearest kramatorsk, Druzhkivka and Kostiantynivka – well -fortified.”

Chasif Yar sits at the northern end of a Russian cordoning of Konstiantynivka, and on Saturday, the Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that its forces had seized Aleksandro-Kalinovo, at the southern end of the crabps that attached Konstiantynivka.

Some analysts did not agree that the fall of Chasiv Yar was the same as the importance of making Russian analysts look a sound.

“The Russian tactical progress in the west in Shassif Yar is not an operational importance in this field,” said the Warmat Study Institute (ISW), a Washington -based research tank.

ISW said: “The Russian forces have held most of the north and central Shasif Yar since late January 2025 and began to advance in the southwest of Chassif Yar in mid -June 2025,” ISW said.

He added that the Ukrainian communication lines have not been threatened more, because “the Russian forces were within the tubular artillery group on the main logistical road of Ukraine through the castle belt since late January 2025, and they have occupied sites along T-0504 Bakhmut-Kostyantynivka Highway for several months so far, Ukrainian threatens to Kostiantynivkynivky.

The situation was different in Boucrovsk, about 35 km (22 miles) southwest of Chasif Yar, which was also surrounded by Russia.

Dennis Boucalin, the President of the Loyal Republic of Donetsk, said that the Ukrainian communication lines in Boukerrovsk were disabilities.

“The enemy has greatly rejected the possibility of offering ammunition and the implementation of the forces’ rotation,” said Boucilin.

“The most difficult situation is in the directions of Pokrovsk, Dobropilia, and Novopavlivka,” said Ukrainian commander Okrani Serski, and “two other settlements behind Pokrovsk in the unbelievable Donetsk.

“The enemy increases the efforts made to capture our main blocs, search for weak locations in our defense, and to perform active combat simultaneously on several fronts,” he said.

He said that the Russian forces were sabotage groups in the Ukrainian back in an attempt to “total infiltration”, and that Ukraine was “using expert control reserves, and their mission is to search for and destroy groups of sabotage of the enemy.”

Kupiansk and “Insulating Zone”

At the northern end of the front, Russia claimed that it entered Kobansk in Kharkiv on Tuesday.

Andrei Maruchko, a Russian military expert, said that Andre Marrchko told Tass that Russian forces are fighting street battles in Kupiansk. He said that the forces were deploying small mobile groups targeting Ukrainian positions with accurate strikes.

Russia is located in DNIPROPTROVSK and Kharkiv to Luhansk, Donitsk, Zaporizia and Kheson, the four areas that were officially included in September 2022.

Russia claims to create a buffer zone to protect those areas, but Ukraine believes that the claim is an excuse for more occupation.

Officials at the low -level level suggested that the buffer zone should be at least 30 km (20 miles), but the Russian leadership did not put such a limit.

Moscow also continued its long -term strikes against Ukraine.

The drone attack was killed on July 31, 31 people in Kyiv. The Ukrainian Minister of Interior Ihor Klymenko said Russia has used the Shahid plane aircraft, which travels much faster than the type driven by the fan, and is difficult to intercept.

The Ukrainian Air Force reported that the Russian forces launched eight Iskander-K missiles from the city of Kursk, 309 of the type of Shahid and drones. UK Prime Minister Kiir Starmer described him as a “very evil blow, brutal.”

War of words

Even while pressing him with these attacks, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that Ukraine was not ready for peace talks.

During a press conference with the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday, Putin said: “In principle, we can wait if the Ukrainian leadership believes that it is not time,” adding that “all disappointments arise from excessive expectations.”

He was referring to the fact that three rounds of direct negotiations did not result in a ceasefire.

Last week, US President Donald Trump repeated that he was “disappointed” in Putin, and in recent weeks weapons were allowed to flow to Ukraine.

On Friday, the American Pentagon said it would sell advanced medium -range missiles (Amraam) to Ukraine.

Trump also got social media sparkling Dmitry MedvedevThe Vice -President of the Russian National Security Council, after Medvedev objected to the date of Trump on August 9 to Russia to conclude the ceasefire deal.

On Saturday, Trump wrote about his service in the field of facts as “ordering two nuclear submarines in the appropriate areas, only in the event that these foolish data and infections are more than that.”

On the same day, Trump announced a 25 percent tariff for India to buy Russian oil. On Tuesday, he told CNBC: “I will raise this significantly over the next 24 hours, because they are buying Russian oil, they feed the war machine, and if they will do that, I will not be happy.”

Ukraine strikes

Meanwhile, Ukraine has climbed its campaign against Russian energy and transportation infrastructure.

On July 31, Russia said it had shot down 32 long -term drones in the western border areas. As a result of the Ukrainian attack, she said that the railway services in the Volgograd region were late.

Ukraine said that Ukraine is attacking the Russian railway that connects the defense factories to the front.

Andrei Kovalinko, head of the Ukraine Center for misleading information, said that a radio factory in Penza, Russia, was attacked, which made mobile leadership complexes and automatic fighting systems.

On Saturday, Ukraine launched a wide range of strikes.

Kovalinko said that the Radio Factory in Penza was attacked for the second time, along with Electropribor, a manufacturer for the Machirin, and the safe modem and keys of military agencies and intelligence.

Ukraine also struck a storage and launch site for drones at Primorsko-Akhtarsk Military Airport in Krasnodar.

But her biggest songs were against oil refineries.

Ukraine attacked the Ryzan oil refinery, one of the four largest in Russia, responsible for more than 6 percent of all refining in Russia, causing a fire. Hit was also the Novokuybyshevs oil near the city of Samara, where the explosions were filmed. Ukraine also struck the AnnanaftePrductive oil warehouse in the Voronezh region, which led to the fire, and on Sunday, it hit the Ukrainian long -term oil warehouse in Sochi on the Black Sea.

The Ukrainian media reported that the explosions harmed the main Russian gas pipeline that carries gas from Turkmenistan to Russia, and closed indefinitely. The media said it provides military industries, including Demikhv machinery plant, Mig Aircraft, and Magnum-K.