Local forces continue their sweeping counter-offensive in Kharkiv as the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant goes completely offline after further bombing
Ukraine’s Defense Minister, Oleksiy Réznikov, insists that his troops “break through the enemy’s logistics chains and their defenses at different points at different points” in the Kharkov region after the counter-offensive on 6 September and the brilliant progress made. this Saturday is booked. According to him, “this could cause an avalanche effect, a large-scale withdrawal of Russian troops.”
However, the spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashénkov, has assured that the withdrawal of the Moscow troops in the face of Ukrainian pressure has been a “regrouping” of troops. “In order to achieve the stated goals of the special military operation to liberate Donbas, it was decided to regroup Russian troops stationed in the Balakleya and Izium regions to intensify efforts towards Donetsk,” he said.
Ukrainian media and their Telegram channels confirm this Sunday that the Ukrainian army, along with Kupiansk and Izium, has also “liberated” Limán, in the Donetsk region, of information denied by the Russian side, recognizing, however, that fierce fighting that take place around Limán.
This morning’s report from the General Staff in Kiev assures that “our forces have repulsed enemy attacks near the towns of Sosnovka, Mayorsk, Nikolaevka Vtoraya, Záitsevo, Vesiolaya Dolina, Soledar, Bakhmut, Peski, Pervomáiyskoye and Novomijáilovka, all located in the Donetsk region and controlled by Ukrainian forces.
It means that, faced with the local advance in the Kharkov region, the Russian army and separatist forces have intensified their attacks with the aim of trying again to capture the unconquered part of Donetsk from the Ukrainian forces and cut off their advance. The head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR), Denis Pushilin, today confirmed that his troops are currently fighting the Ukrainians in different directions.
But Ukrainian authorities report that Russian troops are also leaving the city of Volchansk, in the Kharkiv region, near the border with Russia, where officials of the occupation administrations appointed by Moscow had taken refuge. They also reported the capture of the city of Velikaya Kamishevaja, also in the Kharkiv region and 10 kilometers from Izium.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his daily message on Saturday that his troops have already recaptured some 2,000 square kilometers in the Kharkiv region. “The advance of our soldiers in different directions of the front continues. To date, as part of the active operations, about 2,000 kilometers of our territory have already been released since the beginning of September. The Russian army today shows the best of itself, namely its show your back,” Zelensky stressed, emphasizing that the decision to flee is the best the occupants can do to save their lives.
This morning, the Commander-in-Chief of Ukrainian forces, General Valeri Zaluzhni, corrected the data, saying that “more than 3,000 square kilometers have come back under Ukrainian control since the beginning of September. Around Kharkov we started advancing, not only to the south and east, but also to the north.”
For his part, the former Defense Minister of the Donetsk rebels, Igor Strelkov, pointed to his Telegram channel, referring to what happened on Saturday, that “from the second half of the day and throughout the night, there was a withdrawal rush of our troops from the western bank of the Seversky Donets River south of Izium. It was done under the cover of DNR troops and Russian volunteer units and with artillery support.” Strelkov admits there have been “heavy fighting”, though he denies that Izium is under full Ukrainian control. “The northern part of Izium is in the hands of the enemy and the south in the hands of the Russian army.”
The former separatist military leader goes on to say that “the enemy has failed to encircle the main forces of our group, with the exception of individual sub-units. Most likely, the new front line will be located along the Oskol River and the Oskol Reservoir.”
Meanwhile, the sixth reactor at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, the only one currently in operation, had to be shut down after 2:30 a.m. last night due to new bombings, for which Moscow and Kiev are each responsible. Vladimir Rogov, one of the heads of the occupation administration of Zaporizhzhya, has reported this to the Russian office RIA-Nóvosti.
As he assured, “the reactor had been operating at very low power for several days and is now no longer producing electricity.” Rogov said the attacks damaged the reactors’ power lines, a situation he believes “could lead to an accident” at the plant. The official added that “reactor cooling preparations are underway.” The Ukrainian authorities, for their part, point out that “as a result of the bombardment by the Russian army, all the lines connecting the nuclear power plant to the Ukrainian energy system have been damaged. For the past three days, the powerplant has been operating in island mode, feeding only the factory’s own needs at a critically low power level.”
Source: La Verdad

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