British military officials say both Russia and Ukraine are suffering high numbers of casualties as Kyiv fights to dislodge the Kremlin's forces from occupied areas.
abc.net.au/news/ukraine-counteroffensive-zaporizhzhia-gains-kakhovka-dam/102494574Russia and Ukraine are suffering high numbers of military casualties as Kyiv fights to dislodge the Kremlin's forces from occupied areas in the early stages of its counteroffensive, according to British officials.The Ukrainian president says Kyiv's long-anticipated counteroffensive is proceeding well
Western analysts and military officials have cautioned Ukraine's counteroffensive may last a long timehighest level since the peak of the battle for Bakhmut in MarchAccording to British intelligence, the most intense fighting has centred on the south-eastern Zaporizhzhia province, around Bakhmut and further west in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk province.
A Russian-installed official said Ukrainian troops had recaptured Piatykhatky, a village in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, and were entrenching themselves there while coming under fire from Russian artillery. Russia's defence ministry made no mention of Piatykhatky in its daily update, in which it said its forces had repelled Ukrainian attacks in three sections of the front line.The evening report by the general staff of Ukraine's armed forces also made no mention of Piatykhatky.
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