Kyiv’s forces recaptured Blahodatne, a village in the Donetsk region, Russian Telegram channels and Ukraine’s Suspilne news service reported on Sunday as details trickle out about the counteroffensive against Russian occupying troops. A video posted online by Ukraine’s 68th Jaeger brigade showed soldiers raising the Ukrainian flag over a partially destroyed building. The footage couldn’t be independently verified.
(Bloomberg) — Kyiv’s forces recaptured Blahodatne, a village in the Donetsk region, Russian Telegram channels and Ukraine’s Suspilne news service reported on Sunday as details trickle out about the counteroffensive against Russian occupying troops. A video posted online by Ukraine’s 68th Jaeger brigade showed soldiers raising the Ukrainian flag over a partially destroyed building. The footage couldn’t be independently verified.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy cited a “positive mood” in his first, guarded comments about the new offensive. Ukraine conducted operations in at least four areas on Saturday, according to the Institute for the Study of War. Geolocated footage “indicates that Ukrainian forces in western Zaporizhzhia oblast made localized gains during counterattacks southwest and southeast of Orikhiv, and Russian milbloggers continued to claim that Russian forces in this area are successfully defending” against attempted advances, the US-based analysts said. Ukraine’s military cited 35 combat engagements in the eastern Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
The visit to Kyiv on Saturday by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came a month ahead of the key NATO summit in Vilnius. Zelenskiy is pushing for a path to membership of the military alliance, which Trudeau said Canada supports “as soon as conditions allow for it.” The UK defense ministry said the collapse of Ukraine’s Kakhovka Dam last week “has almost certainly severely disrupted the occupied Crimean peninsula’s primary source of fresh water.” The water level in the Kakhovka reservoir continues to decline, while floodwaters downstream are receding as evacuations continue in the Kherson region.
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