Ukraine announces significant progress in its counter-offensive in the South and East
Members of the Ukrainian armed forces leave the city of Bakhmout after facing pro-Russian troops, in the Donetsk region, September 7, 2022. © Ammar Awad / Reuters
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The Ukrainian government announced on Tuesday September 6 that its armed forces had gone on the attack not only in the Kherson region, but also in the Donbass and in the Kharkiv region, in the northeast of the country.
The next morning, several sources announced that localities in the south and in the east had been liberated from the pro-Moscow occupying forces.
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With our correspondent in Kiev,
Stéphane Siohan
After Ukrainian soldiers hoisted the yellow and blue flag on the roof of the Vissokopolie hospital in the Kherson region on Sunday, members of the Ukrainian armed forces are breaking the informational silence demanded by their officers and posting on social networks videos in
localities freshly recaptured from the Russians
.
According to the maps of the Institute for the Study of War, an American study center with often very reliable analyses, the army of
Kiev would have advanced in depth
on the left bank of the Dnieper, creating a pocket of liberated territory, which could eventually split
the sector held by the Russians
in two .
In the East, there is also something new: a
parallel counter-offensive has been launched between Kharkiv
and Izium, announced an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Separatist officials in Donetsk have confirmed that the Ukrainian army has gone on the attack in the localities of Balakleia, and Volokhiv Yar, which indicates that kyiv is gradually trying to surround and isolate the Russian forces located in Izium, the last major city between Kharkiv and the Donbass region.
Meanwhile, the Russian army continues to trample on the outskirts of Bakhmut (between Sloviansk and Donetsk), and despite heavy shelling of civilian areas of Sloviansk, on most fronts the Ukrainians are slowly and methodically to take control of the initiative in combat.
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