Russia intensifies attacks in eastern Ukraine even as it fights Kursk incursion

A Russian Army multiple rocket launcher fires towards a Ukrainian position at an undisclosed location (Russian Defence Ministry Press Service photo via AP)

The Russian army is intensifying its attacks in eastern Ukraine, military authorities have said, even as the Kremlin’s forces try to check a surprise week-long incursion into Russia by Kyiv’s troops.

Ukraine’s General Staff said on Tuesday that over the previous 24 hours, Russian troops had launched 52 assaults in the area of Pokrovsk, a town in Ukraine’s Donetsk region that is close to the front line. This is roughly double the number of daily attacks there a week ago.