Started on September 4, the Ukrainian counter-offensive towards the east of Kharkiv will therefore have taken on the appearance of a “blitzkrieg”. A real blitzkrieg that seems to have surprised the Russian command, then concentrated on the other counter-offensive, announced for some time, and which officially aimed at the city of Kherson.
Commenting on the latest information on events in the northeast, Oleh Syniehoubov, head of the military administration of the Kharkiv region, said in a comment. collected from the online newspaper Ukrainian truth : “Our soldiers continue operations to free the Kharkiv region from the Russian occupiers. The enemy hastily abandons his positions and flees to the rear in the previously occupied territories, or retreats directly to the territory of the Russian Federation ”.
Russian border
In some places on the front, he adds, “Our fighters have reached the border with the Russian Federation”. Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy chief of staff of the president, assures:
“Metro by meter, the Ukrainian army is liberating the Kharkiv region: there are hundreds of settlements, thousands of streets, these are the hometowns of tens of thousands of Ukrainians.”
For now, the Ukrainian forces are not easing the pressure on their opponents. Fights are reportedly taking place around Lyma
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