Posted on 06/12/2023 1:31:33 PM PDT by Mariner
KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Monday its troops had recaptured seven villages from Russian forces along an approximately 100-km (60-mile) front in the southeast since launching its long-anticipated counteroffensive last week.
The task of ending Moscow's occupation of southern and eastern Ukraine is daunting, given Russia's numerical superiority in men, ammunition and air power, and the many months it has had to build deep defensive fortifications.
On Monday, soldiers were seen in video holding the Ukrainian flag in the village of Storozheve, along the Mokri Yaly river which flows northward out of Russian-held territory. Reuters confirmed the location.
A day earlier Kyiv said its forces heading south had liberated three other nearby villages along the Mokri Yaly: Blahodatne, Neskuchne and Makarivka.
Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said in a Telegram post late on Monday that Ukrainian forces had also recaptured Levadne and Novodarivka, around 10 km (6 miles) west of the Mokri Yaly, as well as Lobkove, southeast of the city of Zaporizhzhia.
Maliar said troops had advanced a total of 6.5 km. "The area of the territory taken under control was 90 square kilometres (35 square miles)," she said. Maliar added that the seven settlements were taken over the past week, without giving details of precisely when.
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They just drove up, planted a flag and took some selfies.
On the main north-south front, the one that matters, they have hit a brick wall and are taking heavy losses.
I would not believe either side for now. Just hold on for a week and let’s see the map on 19th June.
Then we can see what really happened
I wonder what upgrades in equipment materiel of greater deadliness and ease of training/deployment will be forthcoming since Biden loudly and repeatedly reads teleprompter messages that “we are in it with Ukraine to the end, with whatever it takes from us for them to win.”
Escalation?
Make that 5 villages
ZOKA
@200_zoka
Seems Russians make counterattack regaining control over Makarivka and pushing back Ukrainians from Urozhaina.Ukrainian channels also claims same..
Of course they did.
Where else can those poor souls advance with any success, unless the place is vacated or empty of any opposition.
Typical, the Reuters, Yahoo print choo choo... “I Think I Can, I Think I Can”..
All props for Obama/biden depleting US of Cash and any homeland defense machine.
The Ukrainians have captured Russian water!!
Putin Worst Affected.
If you misgender them, they explode.
from the article:
“The task of ending Moscow’s occupation of southern and eastern Ukraine is daunting, given Russia’s numerical superiority in men, ammunition and air power, and the many months it has had to build deep defensive fortifications.”
May God bless and protect Ukraine and Ukrainians
The What House is incapable.
They will do nukes to beat back Russia, because Russia wars very slowly. Hence, they have let UKR exhaust itself, and our DOD deplete itself, of supplies.
The Harvard run What House did not ramp up in time to provide the needed machine to UKR. It’s old. It’s late. And, Russia is blowing it up with drones in numbers to the man of UKR soldiers. Sickening waste of souls. These people are sick.
Russia has lost the initiative. There is no talk of a Russian offensive. It’s the high water mark for Putin.
Putin is grim. /s
The issue is really that the US State Dept, DoD and CIA told the White House they could achieve a Russian defeat, and glorious Ukrainian victory for mere money and a few aged arms due to rotate out of US service.
They told the same story in all the European capitals.
They are deeply, deeply invested.
And completely full of bullshit.
There will be no direct NATO involvement.
How long can the Ukes hold out before defeat with too old arms delivered too late to really help?
Neskuchne and Makarivka have already been retaken by the Russians in a counter-attack.
You broke my propaganda meter!
So why is Russia sending obsolete tanks out to the action? Seems they really are running out of weapons.
“Ukraine seeking praise for taking 7 villages that were not defended or occupied by Russian troops, 10s of miles from the main action.
They just drove up, planted a flag and took some selfies.
On the main north-south front, the one that matters, they have hit a brick wall and are taking heavy losses. “
Do you take umbrage with any of that?
I never have. There’s been heavy propaganda from both sides since this thing started.
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