The advance of a Russian military convoy towards Kiev was stalled among the last 03 and 36 hours for the Ukrainian resistance and because the Russians would be regrouping and evaluating the progress they have not made, the Pentagon said Wednesday .
“We have some indications, nothing that we can independently verify at 100%, but there are some indications that the Ukrainians have tried, in fact, to slow down that convoy”, said the spokesman for the US Department of Defense, John Kirby, at a press conference.
The American official added that another reason for the stagnation of that military caravan, which is advancing from the north towards the Ukrainian capital , are “logistical and maintenance challenges”, which the Russians had not anticipated.
While, in the south, “it seems that the Russian forces are generally facing less resistance than in the north”, indicated that spokesperson.
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He also said that the United States will postpone a missile test after “Russia raised the threat of an attack nuclear“.
Kirby pointed out that there is still a “very disputed battle” for the Ukrainian town of Kherson, which Russia claims it has taken and towards which it has advanced from Crimea.
“We it seems that the Ukrainians are certainly fighting for that city,” he said.
Regarding the situation in Mariupol, Kirby said that the Russian forces are making progress: However, “we do not believe that (the Russians) are in the center of the city, we have all kinds of indications that Mariúpol will be defended”, he stressed.
The spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashénkov, announced on Wednesday that the Russian armed forces had taken full control of Kherson.
Further east, in Mariúpol, on the of the Sea of Azov and in the Donetsk region, pro-Russian separatists backed by Russian military power claimed today that their forces had blockaded the city, according to Russian media.
However, the Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior assured that “the battles for Mariupol continue”, since the units of the National Guard together with the Armed Forces “maintain the defense of the city”.
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