Ingabo z’u Burusiya zinjiye mu mujyi w’ingenzi wa Kostyantynivka uherereye mu burasirazuba bwa Ukraine, kandi ubu ziragerageza kuwugota. Abasirikare ba Ukraine babwiye BBC ko uwo mujyi ubu uri “mu kangaratete”, bivuze ko nta ruhande na rumwe rukiwugenzura neza. Umusirikare wa Ukraine ukoresha drone muri ako gace, wasabye ko amazina ye atatangazwa, yagize ati: “Banyura inyuma y’imirongo yacu y’ubwirinzi, kandi mu mijyi biragoye cyane kubirukana.” Kostyantynivka ni irembo rijya mu bindi bice bya Donbas bisigaye bigenzurwa na Ukraine.
Niba uwo mujyi ufaswe n’u Burusiya, ingabo zabwo zizoroherwa no kugera ku mijyi ikomeye ya nyuma ya Ukraine iri mu burasirazuba, ari yo Kramatorsk na Sloviansk. Ibyo byatuma u Burusiya bwegereza cyane intego yabwo yo kwigarurira burundu akarere ka Donbas, imwe mu ntego z’ingenzi z’ubutegetsi bw’u Burusiya muri iyi ntambara.
Mu mezi ashize, intambara hagati y’u Burusiya na Ukraine yari yarahagaze hafi y’imirongo y’intambara idahinduka cyane. Abayobozi b’ingabo za Ukraine bavuga ko muri uyu mwaka bongeye kwisubiza ibice by’ubutaka byinshi kurusha ibyo batakaje.
Abo bayobozi bavuga ko ibyo byahungabanije imihanda n’inzira z’ingenzi u Burusiya bukoresha mu gutwara ibikoresho hagati y’umupaka wabwo na Crimea, intara ya Ukraine igenzurwa n’u Burusiya.
Ku Cyumweru, abayobozi b’iyo ntara bashyizweho n’u Burusiya bahagaritse kugurisha lisansi ku baturage kubera ikibazo cy’ibura ryayo.
Nanone, ibitero bya Kyiv byibasiye inganda zitunganya ibikomoka kuri peteroli i Moscow, i St Petersburg no mu tundi duce tw’u Burusiya, bigamije gutuma abaturage b’Abarusiya baba kure y’urugamba bumva ingaruka z’iyi ntambara.
Ariko muri Kostyantynivka, ingabo z’u Burusiya zinjiye ziturutse mu majyepfo, kandi zimaze no kugaragara ku rundi ruhande rw’umujyi mu majyaruguru. Moscow ivuga ko ingabo zayo zirimo gutera imbere byihuse mu majyepfo y’iburasirazuba bwa Kostyantynivka kandi ko zagose bamwe mu basirikare ba Ukraine.
Ariko Kyiv irabihakana. Jenerali Oleksandr Bakulin, uyoboye Brigade ya 19 y’ingabo za Ukraine ishinzwe kurinda uwo mujyi n’utundi duce tuwukikije, yavuze ko “ibintu bikigenzurwa” kandi ko “umwanzi ataragera ku ntsinzi.”
Nubwo bimeze bityo, yemera ko hari abasirikare b’u Burusiya bagera ku 130 bakiri muri uwo mujyi.
Umwe mu basirikare ba Ukraine bakorera muri Kostyantynivka yavuze ko uko ibintu bimeze ku rugamba bishobora kuba bitari bibi nk’uko Moscow ibivuga, ariko ko bigaragara ko bibi kurusha uko abayobozi ba Ukraine bemera kubitangaza ku mugaragaro.
