Ukrainian forces have recaptured 6,000 sq km in the country’s south and east, Zelenskiy says; Kyiv says Russia has stopped sending new troops into Ukraine
Ukraine’s deputy defense minister said fighting is still raging in Ukraine’s north-eastern Kharkiv region. Hanna Malyar said “ The end is to liberate the Kharkiv region and beyond – all the homes enthralled by the Russian Federation. Fighting is continuing. It's still early to say full control has been established over the Kharkiv region. Our strength stems from the fact that we're veritably motivated and that we plan operations completely. ”
The Ukrainian service says it had freed further than 20 agreements in 24 hours. In recent days, Kyiv’s forces have captured homes at least twice the size of lesser London, according to the British Defence Ministry.
Ukraine’s service says the Antonivsky Bridge across the Dnieper River near engaged Kherson in the south is now unworkable by the Russian military
The US clerk of state, Antony Blinken, has said Ukrainian forces had made important progress in their counterattack against Russian colors, although it was too early to prognosticate the outgrowth. “ easily we ’ve seen significant progress by the Ukrainians, particularly in the northeast, and that's a product of the support we ’ve handed, but first and foremost it’s a product of the extraordinary courage and adaptability of the Ukrainian fortified forces and the Ukrainian people, ” Blinken told journalists in Mexico City.
Ukraine’s State Border Service has issued a videotape that purports to show dogfaces tearing down Russian banners and burning the Russian flag in Vovchansk, which is in the north of Ukraine’s Kharkiv region and veritably near the border with Russia.
Russia’s military commanders have stopped transferring new units into Ukraine after the counterattack, the general staff of the fortified forces of Ukraine said on its Facebook runner on Monday. “ The current situation in the theatre of operations and mistrust of the advanced command forced a large number of levies to categorically refuse the prospect of service in combat conditions. ”
Russian colors have left behind stashes of security and other inventories following Ukraine’s counterattack in Kharkiv oblast, the Kyiv Independent reports. One critic estimated that further than 300 vehicles, including tanks, tone-propelled mortars, and force exchanges, had been lost between 7 and 11 September.
Russia responded to the counterattack by launching bullet strikes that cut electricity and water inventories in Kharkiv megacity for an alternate time in lower than 24 hours, knocking out both on Monday morning just hours after the megacity authorities had restored 80 of the serviceability that had been cut overnight.
Russia’s chairman, Vladimir Putin, appeared on state television on Monday evening, chairing a meeting on frugality at which he made no reference to the military situation and said Russia was holding up in the face of western warrants. “ The profitable blitzkrieg tactics, the rush they were counting on, didn't work ”.
