According to US experts, the Ukrainian army has recaptured more territory in five days than Russian troops have occupied since April. “The liberation of Izyum will be Ukraine’s greatest military success since the victory in the Battle of Kiev in March,” the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said in its analysis of the situation on Sunday.
The experts believe this means that Russia’s planned advance into the Donbass from the north has failed. The Washington think tank regularly publishes analyzes of combat events in Ukraine since the start of the war. Sunday is the 200th day of the Russian war of aggression.
400 Russian soldiers killed in one day
But after the rapid advance of the Ukrainian army in the northeast of the country, not all Russian troops managed to withdraw, according to information from Kiev: they are cut off from the supply routes and in a panic,” the Ukrainian General Staff said in its situation report on Sunday. . In addition, losses on the Russian side were high, with 400 killed in one day. The information has not been independently verified.
The General Staff did not disclose details of the positions and extent of the recent recaptures. According to previous reports, Russian troops occupy about 125,000 square kilometers in Ukraine. That is one fifth of the country’s territory, including the Crimean peninsula.
Russian withdrawal from the Kharkov . region
According to British military intelligence, Ukrainian forces have made significant progress in the past 24 hours in their counter-offensive in the Kharkiv region to the east. According to the latest intelligence report, the Russian military may have withdrawn units there. However, the fighting continued around the cities of Kuyansk and Izyum.
The British Ministry of Defense has published daily information on the course of the war since the start of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine in late February, citing intelligence information. With this, the British government wants to both counter the Russian portrayal and keep allies in line. Moscow accuses London of a targeted disinformation campaign.
“The liberation is in full swing”
Meanwhile, according to information from Kiev, the Ukrainian army continued to retake the Russian-occupied territory in eastern Ukraine. “The liberation of towns in the Kuyansk and Izyum districts is underway,” Ukraine’s armed forces wrote in a situation report on Sunday. With a massive counter-offensive, they recently recaptured at least 30 cities in the eastern Ukrainian region of Kharkov.
According to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the army command, Ukraine has recaptured an area of more than 3,000 square kilometers from Russia in recent days. Russia had initially announced that troops would be transferred to the Kharkov region as a result of the Ukrainian offensive, but then spoke Saturday of a troop withdrawal to the Donetsk region further south.
Source: Krone
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