It is the first report of a territorial gain in the south-eastern Zaporizhzhia region. Read more at straitstimes.com.
KYIV - Ukrainian forces have retaken a small village in the south of the country, a local Russian official and military bloggers said on Sunday, the first report of a territorial gain in the Zaporizhzhia region since the
Still, it would be the first village retaken in recent days, and add to the seven villages that Ukrainian officials said they had recaptured farther east in the Donetsk region as part of the counteroffensive that began about a week and a half ago. But Russian military bloggers, who are often the first to announce battlefield developments in Ukraine, said Moscow’s forces had lost the village after three days of intense fighting.
A large Ukrainian force was making a sustained attempt to break through Russia’s defensive lines, the unnamed blogger wrote, with losses on both sides and the stench of dead bodies drifting over the battlefield. “Many wounded due to continuous artillery shelling,” the account said. In hopes of making it harder for Russia to fend off the counterattack, Ukraine has followed a pattern it established last year of launching a series of strikes behind the front lines that target ammunition dumps, military infrastructure and other elements of Moscow’s war machine.
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