2023-07-27 20:35:26
The news comes from Anglo-Saxon sources and have been confirmed by the president himself Vladimir Putin, while kyiv, as usual when it comes to offensive military operations of his Army, remains in a prudent silence. According to these versions, the local armed forces would have started the main thrust of his famous counter-offensive with a mechanized attack with dozens of armored on the front line near the city of Zaporizhia. While Yuri Sakadviser to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, limited himself to confirming that there was “no news” on his part to report, in Moscow, the spokesman for the Army Igor Konáshenkovstated that “the enemy forces” had suffered “serious losses” during the aforementioned raid.
In his speech on Tuesday night, the Ukrainian President, Volodímir Zelenski, had anticipated that they had occurred “Very good results” on the battlefield, whose details They would be announced shortly. Two days later, in an aside from the summit with the African countries held in Moscow, the leader of the Kremlin himself recognized on Russian television the factsdetailing that Ukraine had used “a large number of armored“, around fifty, of which about forty would have been destroyed and emphasizing that the movement had failed.
The attack occurred according to the Institute for Studies on War (ISW)in the vicinity of the town of Robotyne, and managed to advance to positions 2.5 kilometers south of the front line, according to geolocation data. According to the same source, the defending troops managed to push back the attackers although they did not return them to their original positions. In the event that the Ukrainian side finally manages to break through the front at this point, the advance of the Ukrainian Army to the sea of Azov it would be easier, according to the ISW. “The southernmost defense lines are much less endowed of men than the advanced positions”, positions that, always following the geolocation data, Ukraine would have managed to overcome for the first time in its counteroffensive, highlights the institute. Ukraine still has reserve troops trained in the West and prepared for the counteroffensive, specifically “multiple brigades”, the researchers conclude.
The main objective of the Ukrainian counteroffensive is precisely breach y break territorial continuity that he army of Russia established in the first days of the invasion between the annexed crimean peninsula and the Donbas region, under the control of a pro-Kremlin puppet government. If it succeeds, Kiev could enter into a negotiation with Moscow from a better position, given that Crimea would once again be only accessible through the homonymous bridge, which has already had to be closed on numerous occasions due to attacks. About 120 kilometers away separate Robotyne, and the port of Berdyansk, in the sea of Azov.
Further east, Ukrainian forces continue their wear operations of the Russian lines, and in some cases there is verification having inflicted significant losses on Russian troops. A proruso separatist commander, Aleksándr Jodakovski, has spread a outraged message on Telegram complaining about constant bombardment of the small town of Staromayorske by Ukrainian forces, followed by an assault that made progress, Reuters reports. Despite this, the military confirmed, the population is still under Russian control,
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