2023-07-10 03:52:14
The counter-offensive hasn’t really started yet. The Ukrainians are probing the weak points of the Russian army and tying down its forces with pinpricks. Visit to the East Ukrainian Front.
House roofs have been torn off, side walls collapsed, window frames torn out, refrigerators, tables and chairs a wild bunch. Wrecked cars, pieces of metal, boulders, splintered branches and trees are everywhere on the streets. The destruction is indescribable. None of the houses, which are so typical of rural life in Ukraine with their vegetable gardens and fruit trees, are even remotely livable. The path leads through this chaos over two pontoon bridges over the Mokri Yaly River and then further on a track filled with white gravel gravel. The Ukrainian army built this path in order to stab the Russian occupying forces at Vremivka in the rear.
The village on the border of Donetsk and Zaporizhia Oblast has been divided into two since last year. The front line between Russian and Ukrainian troops led right through the town of just 1,300 inhabitants. Today Vremivka and six other villages in the Velyka Novosilka region are liberated. The Ukrainian forces took it between June 10th and 12th. The 139 square kilometer area is so far the largest territory that Kiev has been able to reclaim as part of its current counter-offensive. “Nowhere else were so many villages taken,” confirms the press officer of the 35th Marine Brigade, which was instrumental in the recapture.
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