Against the background of the Ukrainian counter-offensive, a war also of press releases

Ukraine, September 12, 2022: column of Ukrainian tanks of the counter offensive carried out in the east of the country, in the Kharkiv region.

via REUTERS - UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES

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The offensive will continue “until the objectives are achieved”.

This is what the Kremlin claims, stating that the Russian army is bombing territories reconquered by Ukraine.

Russia is trying to regain control, while kyiv has been on a counter-offensive for several days and has reconquered important cities. 

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Statements from press agencies rain down on both sides: to announce the square kilometers of land recaptured on the Ukrainian side, to ensure the continuation of the offensive on the Russian side. 

Ukraine says it has taken back 500 km² from the Russians in the south of the country (army) and on the Eastern front announces the recapture of “more than twenty localities” in 24 hours, facing Russia.

“The liberation of localities from Russian invaders continues in the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions” (east), the Ukrainian army said this morning.

The

, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Sunday evening.

It is one of the most important towns that has been recaptured in the east of the country, in the Kharkiv region, since the start of this vast counter-offensive launched on September 6 by the Ukrainians.

Volodymyr Zelensky multiplies the messages on social networks, thanks his troops, evokes the victory, broadcasts symbolic images of Ukrainian flags hoisted again in this or that city.

The Defense Minister, Oleksii Reznikov, speaks in an interview (given on September 10) to the newspaper

, of a third stage in this war.

The first stage being, according to him, a war of deterrence, the 2nd of stabilization of the front, and the 3rd therefore this counter-offensive.

Conducted in particular thanks to the sending of arms from abroad.

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He hopes, he says, a snowball effect for the reconquest of the territories occupied by Russia but he does not advance to make predictions on the end of the war.

In Moscow, the tone is also martial

The Russian offensive launched last February will continue "until the objectives are achieved", hammered for its part the Kremlin.

There is currently "no prospect of negotiations" between Moscow and kyiv, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov added on Monday.

Pro-Russian occupation authorities in the Kharkiv region said they had moved to Russia's Belgorod region near the border, ostensibly to help deal with an influx of refugees, according to Russian agencies.

But Moscow, after acknowledging that it had lost ground, resumed an offensive tone to announce the bombardment of areas regained by Ukraine in the Kharkiv region, in the areas of

.

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