Russia Says It Advances Near Chasiv Yar in Eastern Ukraine

Published on April 22, 2024

Russia said on Sunday its forces had advanced towards the town of Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine and seized control of the settlement of Bohdanivka, as Kyiv said it urgently needed promised U.S. support to fend off a full-scale offensive. “Units of the Southern grouping group of forces have fully liberated the settlement of Bohdanivka…and have improved the situation along the front line,” Russia’s defense ministry said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app. Control of Bohdanivka, located just to the west of the Russian-held city of Bakhmut, has been in doubt for some time. The village lies some 5 kilometers (3 miles) east of Chasiv Yar, a heavily fortified hilltop town and forward artillery base for the Ukrainian army, providing protection for some of the area’s largest cities including Kramatorsk and Sloviansk....

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