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As the counteroffensive launched at the beginning of the summer struggles to recapture areas occupied by the Russian army, Kiev has broken through Moscow’s first defense lines in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Published on September 24, 2023 10:30 am
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A tank from a Ukrainian infantry unit moves to the front in the city of Orikhiv in the Zaporizhzhia region and serves as the starting point for the main axis of the Ukrainian offensive on the southern front. (NICOLAS CLEUET / MAXPPP)
The soldiers of the Russian army “are gradually being forced to withdraw from the southern front in Ukraine,” where they showed “the first signs of exhaustion,” explained Tetyana Ogarkova, journalist and head of international affairs at franceinfo on Sunday, September 24 Ukraine Crisis Media Center. According to a Ukrainian general interviewed by CNN, the Kiev army actually broke through Moscow’s first defense lines in Verbowe in the Zaporizhzhia region as part of its counteroffensive in the south and east of the country.
“It is a defensive line that has been reinforced by Russian troops for many months, which means a certain success for the Ukrainian troops,” says journalist Tetyana Ogarkova. “If we manage to break through this defensive line, the path will be open to the places “Tokmak and Melitopol” with the aim of “cutting this corridor” between the Russian-occupied territories and the annexed Crimea. “If the Ukrainians can do this, it will radically change the course of this war.”
And if Tetyana Ogarkova is aware that from here there is a way to “break through all front lines,” today “one can talk about a certain parity between Russian and Ukrainian artillery, which is not the case” all just before one year.” “This progress is very slow and very difficult,” but it is there, said the Ukrainian journalist.
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