KYIV: Ukraine on Monday (Jun 12) said it had retaken seven villages and made small gains in a 'tough' counter-offensive against Russian forces that France said could last months. 'The fighting is tough, but we are moving forward, this is very important,' Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a da
KYIV: Ukraine on Monday said it had retaken seven villages and made small gains in a"tough" counter-offensive against Russian forces that France said could last months.
French President Emmanuel Macron said the long-awaited campaign, with weapons donated by Western allies, would be underway for weeks if not months. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken voiced hope that the offensive would force Russian President Vladimir Putin into talks about ending its invasion.Ukraine's defence minister Ganna Malyar said on Telegram on Monday that"seven settlements were liberated" - referring to the villages of Lobkovo, Levadne and Novodarivka in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, which houses Europe's largest nuclear plant, now under Russian occupation.
"Ukrainian forces made visually verified advances in western Donetsk Oblast and western Zaporizhzhia Oblast, which Russian sources confirmed but sought to downplay," the US-based Institute for the Study of War said in an analytical note Monday.
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