Ukrainian troops advancing in all directions of counteroffensive, Kyiv says – National | 24CA News
Ukrainian troops are advancing in all instructions of their counteroffensive towards occupying Russian forces, a senior defence official stated on Friday.
Since the beginning of the counteroffensive this month, Ukraine says it has reasserted management over clusters of villages within the southeast though Russia nonetheless holds swathes of territory within the east, south and southeast.
“If we talk about the entire frontline, both east and south, we have seized the strategic initiative and are advancing in all directions,” Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar advised Ukrainian tv.
Reuters was unable to confirm the state of affairs on the battlefield. Russia, which started its full-scale invasion in February 2022, has not acknowledged the Ukrainian features and has stated Ukraine’s navy are struggling heavy casualties.
Maliar stated Ukrainian troops have been transferring “confidently” on the flanks across the devastated japanese metropolis of Bakhmut, which is held by Russian forces, and the principle preventing was happening across the metropolis.
In the south, Kyiv’s forces have been transferring with blended success and primarily leveling the frontline, she stated.
“In the south, we are moving with varying success, sometimes there are days when it is more than a kilometer, sometimes less than a kilometer, sometimes up to 2 kilometers,” she stated.
She famous that the effectiveness of the counteroffensive needs to be evaluated by “a lot of different military tasks” and never simply by advances and the liberation of settlements.
“Therefore, all these tasks are being carried out and only the military can assess this correctly and accurately, and according to their assessment, everything is going according to plan,” she stated.
President Voldoymyr Zelenskyy has described the counteroffensive as continuing extra slowly than desired, however that Kyiv wouldn’t be pressured into rushing it up.
Ukrainian officers have additionally stated the “main event” of the counteroffensive has but to begin, and that Ukraine has not but despatched its important troop reserves into fight.
