2023-08-28 07:21:16
Ukraine announced the recapture of a town in the south of its territory: “Robotyne has been liberated.” (Archyde.com)
Ukraine announced on Monday that its troops recaptured the town of Robotyne, on the southern front line, where its forces have focused a counteroffensive against Russian positions.
“Robotyne has been released. Our forces are advancing southeast of Robotyne and south of Mala Tokmachka,” Deputy Defense Minister Ganna Malyar told television.
Both towns are in the Zaporizhzhia region, which the Kremlin claimed to have annexed last year despite not having full military control over it.
Ukraine recaptured another square kilometer last week on the southern flank of Bakhmut, in the eastern province of Donetsk, adding to a total of 44 kilometers of territory liberated around the city since its counteroffensive began in early June. , according to the latest military part of Kiev.
According to this official balance of the course of the war offered this Monday by Maliar, Russia continues to concentrate its greatest efforts on advancing in the northeast and east areas of the Kupiansk, Liman, Avdivka i Marinka front, in the Kharkiv and Donetsk provinces.
“They are trying to encircle Avdivka and take control of Marinka,” said Maliar, who also spoke of Russian attempts, so far unsuccessful, to recapture territory liberated by Ukraine last fall in the Kharkiv region on the north-eastern border. Ukraine with Russia.
Deputy Defense Minister Ganna Malyar. (Europe Press)
“Russia does not give up its goal of advancing to the administrative borders of Donetsk and Lugansk,” the deputy minister said, referring to the two partially occupied regions of eastern Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin declared part of the Russian Federation along with those of Zaporizhia and Kherson (south) last September.
At least two people died and another five were injured this Monday as a result of a bombardment carried out by the Russian Army against a town located in the Ukrainian province of Poltava, located in the east of the country, according to denounced by the Ukrainian authorities.
The head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, indicated in a message on his Telegram account that so far two deaths and five injuries have been confirmed, although it is not ruled out that the number of victims may increase in the coming hours.
Ukrainian troops advance in the south as part of their counteroffensive. (Archyde.com)
“The Russians have launched a missile attack on the town of Gogoleve, in the Mirhorod district,” he said, before adding that “as a result of the explosion, an oil installation has caught fire.”
Shortly before, the governor of Poltava, Dimitro Lunin, had confirmed an attack perpetrated by “the enemy” and noted that “an industrial facility has been hit.” “The information on victims is being clarified,” he stressed.
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