2023-08-28 22:17:00
The difficult counter-offensive led by Ukraine is beginning to bear fruit. After several difficult weeks on the southern front, a strategic village has been liberated.
By HR with AFP The counter offensive led by kyiv is beginning to bear fruit. © DIEGO HERRERA CARCEDO / ANADOLU AGENCY / Anadolu Agency via AFP
After several weeks of fierce fighting on the country’s southern front, the Ukrainian army has managed to liberate the village of Robotyne. An essential strategic victory for kyiv, which hopes that this reconquest will allow it to provide impetus to its difficult counter-offensive.
This area of the front is the axis of attack towards the cities of Tokmak and then Melitopol in an attempt to break the territorial unity of the areas occupied by the Russians in the south and east with Crimea, annexed in 2014.
Russia meanwhile continued its bombing, which killed at least three people in a village in the center, in the Poltava region.
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Moscow also said on Monday that it had launched two fighter jets to intercept two American reconnaissance drones over the Black Sea, near Crimea, a type of incident that has become frequent in recent months. Since the launch of their counter-offensive in June, the Ukrainian forces have been advancing only slowly, as they are confronted with extremely dense fortified lines of defence.
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In kyiv, it is emphasized that the assault is part of a long-term strategy and that the army is advancing slowly but surely. With the capture of Robotyne, however, the Ukrainian military hope to be in a position to drive a wedge into the front, even if in front of them still stand trenches, anti-tank fortifications and minefields.
Kiev’s fear is now that Russia will send tens of thousands of troops into the northeast in order to break through the front and force Ukraine to turn away from its main axes of attack in the south.
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