 Russia wants to occupy whole of Donetsk Oblast by end of year. Russian occupiers have set a new date for reaching the administrative borders of Donetsk Oblast, the 31st of December. Vitaly Barabash, head of Abdiyivka City Military Administration, said this on Ukrenska Radio. They have set another date for reaching the administrative borders of Donetsk Oblast. Now it is the 31st of December. That is, by the end of the year, they have been tasked with reaching the administrative borders of Donetsk Oblast. They understand that if they capture the high ground in Abdiyivka, it will be easier for them to reach Pokrovsk and so on. This is why Abdiyivka is extremely important to them. Barabash stressed. Barabash said that the Russians are simply wiping Abdiyivka off the face of the earth. Analysts note that the Kremlin has already used and will likely continue to use Hamas attacks on Israel to promote information operations aimed at reducing US and Western support and attention to Ukraine. Russian propagandist Sergei Madan said that Russia would benefit from the escalation as the world will turn its attention away from Ukraine for a while and will once again focus on putting out the eternal fire in the Middle East. Experts say these Kremlin narratives are aimed at Western audiences to drive a wedge into military support for Ukraine, attempt to demoralize Ukrainian society by claiming Ukraine will lose international support and are intended to reassure Russian domestic audiences that the international community will ignore the war effort of Ukraine.