(1st UPDATE) The reported capture of the villages reflects incremental gains for Ukraine that highlight the challenge of breaking through lines Moscow has spent months strengthening.
KYIV, Ukraine – Ukraine said on Monday, June 19, it had driven Russian forces from an eighth village in its two-week-old counteroffensive, a settlement on a heavily fortified part of the front line near the most direct route to the country’s Azov Sea coast.
The reported capture of the villages reflects incremental gains for Ukraine that highlight the challenge of breaking through lines Moscow has spent months strengthening. Piatykhatky is significant, however, as it lies around 90 km from the coast. Ukraine has acknowledged attacks along several parts of the 1,000 km front line in its long-anticipated counteroffensive to retake the 18% of its territory occupied by Russia, but carefully controls information for security reasons. Analysts say the main phase of the counteroffensive is yet to begin.
On a visit to Beijing, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he had asked the Chinese government to be very vigilant on the possibility that Chinese firms may be providing Russia with technology that it can use in the war in Ukraine.
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