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  • Ukraine on Monday announced new military successes, saying it had reached the Russian border and recaptured the equivalent of seven times the area of ​​kyiv in a month from the Russian army.

    According to Volodymyr Zelensky, since the beginning of September, Ukrainian soldiers "have already liberated 6,000 km2 of Ukrainian territory in the east and south, and we continue to advance".

  • US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, however, believes that it is "too early" to anticipate the outcome of this counter-offensive.

    On the ground, the Russians also bombard certain reconquered zones.

  • In the South, the situation remains worrying at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, whose six reactors are now shut down.

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6:51 am: Blinken wants to wait to judge the counter-offensive

Don't sell the bear skin too quickly.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday that it was "too early" to predict the outcome of the Ukrainian army's counter-offensive in the northeast.

"It's too early to say exactly where all of this is going to take us," he told a press conference in Mexico City.

"We're in the early days (of the counter-offensive) so I think it wouldn't be good to predict exactly where this is all going to take us."

“The Russians maintain very significant forces in Ukraine, as well as equipment and ammunition,” observed the Secretary of State.

"But clearly we have significant progress on the part of the Ukrainians, particularly in the Northeast", underlined the emissary of Joe Biden who was in kyiv last week.

6:42 a.m .: The Ukrainian army says it has a chain of successes

Ukraine announced new military successes on Monday, saying it had reached the Russian border and recaptured the equivalent of seven times the area of ​​kyiv in a month from the Russian army, which responded by bombing some reconquered areas.

In the East, “the liberation of localities from Russian invaders continues in the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions”.

And in the region of Kherson (South), the Ukrainian army has claimed the reconquest of 500 km2 in two weeks, its first quantified estimate of its progress in the South.

On the entire front, the army also declared on Monday that it had “succeeded in driving out the enemy from more than 20 localities” in 24 hours, adding that “the Russian troops are hastily abandoning their positions and fleeing”.

6:39 a.m.: The Pope in Kazakhstan for a three-day visit

Pope Francis leaves on Tuesday for a three-day visit to the capital of Kazakhstan, in a regional context tense by the conflict in Ukraine.

He will take part in an interreligious summit in Noursultan (ex-Astana), in the presence of around a hundred delegations from around 50 countries.

The main absentee from this congress, the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, a close supporter of Vladimir Putin, canceled his participation without specifying the reason.

If the pope denounced a “cruel and senseless war”, Kirill defended “the military operation” and the fight against the “external and internal enemies” of Russia.

6:37 am: The Ukrainian army has taken over nearly 6,000 km2 according to Zelensky

"We keep moving forward."

The Ukrainian army recaptured nearly 6,000 km2 of territory controlled by Russian forces during its counter-offensive launched in early September, Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday.

The Ukrainian president, in a video posted on social networks, also separately thanked three military units, whose "bravery" he praised in this operation which resulted, if consolidated, in the most important territorial gains for the Ukraine since the withdrawal of Russian forces from the suburbs of kyiv at the end of March.

The Ukrainian army first announced a counter-offensive in the south, before making a lightning advance over the past week in the Kharkiv region, bordering Russia in the northeast of the country, forcing soldiers of Moscow to retreat to other positions.

It also claims to be successful in the Kherson region (south), occupied by Russia and bordering annexed Crimea.

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Since the beginning of September, the situation on the ground seems to be turning in favor of kyiv.

For Monday alone, the Ukrainian army claims to have "succeeded in driving out the enemy from more than 20 localities", adding that "the Russian troops are hastily abandoning their positions and fleeing".

However, the US Secretary of State is procrastinating.

Antony Blinken believes that it is "too early" to anticipate the result of this counter-offensive in the North-East and South of the country.

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