Zelensky warns of Russian efforts to halt Kyiv’s troops, general notes advances in south

President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Ukrainians that Russia was throwing all its assets right into a marketing campaign to cease Kyiv’s troops from urgent their counter offensive and a prime basic reported new progress on the southern entrance.

But Ukrainian navy analysts steered that issues weren’t simple for Ukrainian forces of their bid to advance southward.

Ukraine has launched a counter offensive to take again swathes of land in japanese and southern Ukraine captured by Russian forces of their invasion launched in February 2022.

It has targeted on capturing villages within the southeast in a drive in direction of the Sea of Azov and areas close to the japanese metropolis of Bakhmut, taken by Russian forces in May after months of battles.

Russian accounts stated its forces had repelled Ukrainian assaults in japanese Donetsk area, together with round Bakhmut.

“We must all understand very clearly, as clearly as possible, that Russian forces in our southern and eastern lands are doing everything they can in order to stop our soldiers,” Zelensky stated in his nightly video handle after chairing a gathering with prime commanders on Friday.

“And every thousand meters we advance, every success of every combat brigade deserves our gratitude.”

Reuters was unable to confirm battlefield stories.

General Oleksander Tarnavskyi, commander of Ukrainian forces within the south, stated after the assembly that his troops had been “systematically moving the enemy out of their positions”.

Enemy losses over the previous 24 hours had been equal to no less than 200, he wrote on Telegram.

“In the south, the situation is very difficult in advancing towards Berdiansk,” navy analyst Serhiy Hrabskyi instructed Ukrainian NV radio, referring to a port on the Sea of Azov. Ukrainian forces hope to chop off a land bridge Russian forces have established with the annexed Crimean peninsula.

“They are moving on the village of Robotyne. The enemy is offering resistance to stop our advance southward.”

Russia’s Defense Ministry, in its day by day report, stated its forces had repelled 16 Ukrainian assaults on the japanese entrance, together with close to the long-contested city of Maryinka and within the strategic village of Klishchiivka, on Bakhmut’s southern fringe. —Reuters

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