Counter-offensive
Posted on 08/10/2023 4:32:30 PM PDT by shadowlands1960
A mandatory evacuation has been ordered for the Ukrainian city of Kupyansk and its surrounding areas, as Russia intensified shelling of Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region and claimed to have captured Ukrainian positions near the city on Thursday.
Kupyansk, which lies close to the Russian border, fell to Moscow’s forces within the first week of their invasion in February last year. It remained under Russian control for several months, before a swift Ukrainian offensive liberated the city in September, along with a number of other settlements in the region.
But in recent weeks Russia has stepped up its efforts to capture the city for a second time. A local Ukrainian official said Thursday that substantial Russian reinforcements had turned the northern front of Kharkiv region into the “epicenter” of hostilities, “where the enemy is concentrating its main efforts.”
Kupyansk authorities estimated that around 12,000 people, including more than 600 children, are now subject to evacuation orders.
Evacuations of this scale are infrequent. Russian-appointed officials organized partial evacuations of the occupied Zaporizhzhia region in May, amid shelling around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Thousands were also evacuated from the Kherson region in June, after the breach of the Nova Kakhovka dam caused severe flooding.
But Ukrainian authorities have not ordered an evacuation of this scale since October last year, when they launched an offensive to reclaim territories captured by Russian forces in Kherson and sought to protect civilians by removing them first.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Russia “claims” advances?
If the Ukrainians are evacuating a city, then these may be “actual” Russian advances.
The reporters are CNN.... ‘nuff said...
good info
Summer Operations | Russian Counterattack At Bakhmut. Kupyansk Evacuation.Military Summary 2023.8.10
https://rumble.com/v36ae6t-summer-operations-russian-counterattack-at-bakhmut.-kupyansk-evacuation.mil.html
A counter-counteroffensive?
Probably more accurate.
Thanks.
Endless wars, with constantly shifting battle lines and alliances. Something similar was always churning in the background in the George Orwell novel “1984”, with the reporting never referring to earlier phases of this endless war. As the alliances shifted, or the fortunes of war moved back and forth, the story was always written as if a great victory had been achieved, and new allies joined, reported as if they had always been allies.
Conflicting information was simply deleted from the “official” record.
Endless wars, with constantly shifting battle lines and alliances. Something similar was always churning in the background in the George Orwell novel “1984”, with the reporting never referring to earlier phases of this endless war. As the alliances shifted, or the fortunes of war moved back and forth, the story was always written as if a great victory had been achieved, and new allies joined, reported as if they had always been allies.
Conflicting information was simply deleted from the “official” record.
You mean we haven’t always been at war with Eurasia?
DEBUNKED, as we know that CNN is a Putin Puppet.
No one here trusts CNN. Do you have a source that is NOT owned by Putin?
It's absurd to continue this proxy war and waste more taxpayer dollars on it.
Matters not who advances or falls as long as the war continues that’s all that matters to libtards
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