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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pledged his forces would not give up "even an inch" in the ongoing battles for control of the eastern Donetsk region, while Russian-appointed officials spoke of Ukrainian forces storming a southern town with tanks.
The focal points of the conflict are located in the industrial zone of Donetsk around the towns of Bakhmut, Solidar and Avdiivka, the scene of the fiercest fighting in Ukraine since the start of the war in Ukraine.
"The occupiers are still very active - dozens of attacks every day," Zelensky said in his video address on Tuesday night.
"They are incurring great losses. But it remains the same - progress towards the administrative borders of the Donetsk region. We will not give up an inch of our land," he added.
The area is one of four that Russia announced it had annexed in late September. Fighting has continued there between the Ukrainian army and Russia's proxy forces since 2014, the same year that Moscow annexed Crimea in the south.

fierce fight
Meanwhile, the RIA news agency quoted a Russian-appointed mayor in the town of Snehorivka, east of the southern city of Mykolaiv, as saying on Tuesday that residents had seen tanks and that heavy fighting was continuing.
Russian missile and drone attacks have targeted Ukraine's energy infrastructure in the past few weeks as winter approaches, when average temperatures usually to several degrees below zero and sometimes to minus 20.

Next week, the United Nations General Assembly is expected to vote on a bill that states that Russia should be responsible for compensating Ukraine for damages caused by "deliberate impermissible acts". The text of the draft resolution was submitted by Ukraine, Canada, Guatemala and the Netherlands.

Reuters