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We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
Ukrainian troops are unleashing a renewed counteroffensive in the southern Kherson region, adding to the woes of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and his generals after last week’s territorial setbacks in the northeast.
Following a relative pause in offensive operations in the south, Kyiv’s forces have struck again in recent days. According to Russian military bloggers, by Monday morning they had made significant inroads along the northern reaches of the massive Dnipro river’s western bank.
The Ukrainian goal, according to the widely followed military blogger Rybar, is to drive south to the village of Dudchany and encircle Russian troops in a pocket, making a swathe of their defenses unsustainable. It would be a repeat of the ring that Ukrainian soldiers threw last week around Lyman, a key logistical town at the northern tip of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region.
Russia’s Defense Ministry on Monday conceded that its forces pulled back after “superior tank units were able to pierce deep into our defenses” near Zolota Balka and Oleksandrivka. The ministry didn’t report any further retreats around Lyman, saying only that it had struck Ukrainian forces there.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who has been consistently cautious about claiming incremental wins on the ground, said two villages in the area had been recaptured.
“The successes of our soldiers are not limited to Lyman,” Zelenskiy said in his daily video address to the nation on Sunday. “This, you know, is the trend.”
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Following a relative pause in offensive operations in the south, Kyiv’s forces have struck again in recent days. According to Russian military bloggers, by Monday morning they had made significant inroads along the northern reaches of the massive Dnipro river’s western bank.
The Ukrainian goal, according to the widely followed military blogger Rybar, is to drive south to the village of Dudchany and encircle Russian troops in a pocket, making a swathe of their defenses unsustainable. It would be a repeat of the ring that Ukrainian soldiers threw last week around Lyman, a key logistical town at the northern tip of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region.
Russia’s Defense Ministry on Monday conceded that its forces pulled back after “superior tank units were able to pierce deep into our defenses” near Zolota Balka and Oleksandrivka. The ministry didn’t report any further retreats around Lyman, saying only that it had struck Ukrainian forces there.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who has been consistently cautious about claiming incremental wins on the ground, said two villages in the area had been recaptured.
“The successes of our soldiers are not limited to Lyman,” Zelenskiy said in his daily video address to the nation on Sunday. “This, you know, is the trend.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...t_fbmsn&cvid=da3a42e1a89742cf84df4b1f134924e0