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<https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2023/07/02/Russian-troops-advancing-in-eastern-Ukraine-amid-fierce-fighting-Kyiv>

**Russian troops are advancing in four areas of the front line in eastern Ukraine amid “fierce fighting,” Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister said on Sunday.**

**“Fierce fighting is going on everywhere,”** Ganna Maliar wrote on social media, adding: “The situation is quite complicated.”

**“The enemy is advancing in Avdiivka, Mariinka, Lyman sectors. The enemy is also moving forward in the Svatove sector,”** she said.

**Maliar said Ukrainian troops were advancing with “partial success” on the southern flank of Bakhmut**, as well as near Berdyansk and Melitopol in southern Ukraine.

**In the south, she said Ukrainian forces faced “intense enemy resistance, remote mining, deploying of reserves” and were only advancing “gradually.”**

**“They are persistently and unceasingly creating conditions for as fast an advance as possible,”** she said.