Russian forces likely to intensify drone and missile strikes on Ukraine / Article

Russia is also likely to further increase pressure in already difficult areas of the front, namely near Chasivyar, west of Avdiyivka, and south and southwest of Donetsk.

The Prime Minister of Ukraine, Denis Shmyhals, has indicated that the government has allocated an additional 202 million US dollars for the construction of fortifications in Ukraine. Earlier this year, $961 million was allocated for this purpose.

Ukrainian authorities have recently faced criticism for slow progress in strengthening defense lines. Back in March, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukraine was building a 2,000-kilometer fortification, adding that the task was huge, but the pace was good.

Ukraine continues to rebuild Russia’s constantly damaged energy infrastructure. Several countries have provided Ukraine with various types of assistance in this regard.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Shmyhals said that the Energy Support Fund of Ukraine collected approximately 410 million euros from 13 partner countries. The Prime Minister explained that with these funds, Ukraine will purchase generators, transformers, spare parts and carry out intensive repairs.

Shmihals also emphasized that the way to compensate for Russia’s destroyed energy capacities is decentralized energy production. A network of mini-cogeneration facilities will be deployed quickly and intensively so that Ukraine has a safety margin when the new heating season begins.

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s ambassador to the US, Oksana Markarova, has said that her country encourages Washington to jointly produce Patriot air defense systems.

which are effective in intercepting Russian ballistic and cruise missiles.

The ambassador pointed out that achieving joint production is an important global strategic task and an element of economic cooperation. At the same time, it is also the increase of combat capabilities and the production of those capabilities that Ukraine immediately needs.

In any case, cooperation and work in this direction between the officials and companies of the two countries is taking place and not only with regard to the production of anti-aircraft defense systems, and Kyiv and Washington also signed a memorandum of understanding on the joint production of weapons last December.

CONTEXT:

Russia’s unjustified and unprovoked large-scale invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, 2022, the Kremlin’s propaganda brazenly promised to capture Kyiv in three days, but the selfless and strong resistance of the Ukrainians prevented the Kremlin from realizing its plans.

After failures, the Kremlin withdrew the army from the Kyiv region, but in the fall of 2022, as a result of a successful counteroffensive, Ukraine managed to drive out the occupation forces from the Kharkiv region and the city of Kherson. In the summer of 2023, Ukraine launched a new counteroffensive, but it was unsuccessful.

On the other hand, in 2024, due to the lack of weapons, Ukraine mostly has to defend itself against Russian attacks, although the Ukrainian leadership emphasizes that it has not given up on the goal of expelling the occupation forces from the entire territory of Ukraine.