Ukraine Says Troops Retake Practically 18 Sq Km of Territory in East, South

(Reuters) – Ukrainian forces have retaken practically 18 sq. km (7 sq. miles) of territory within the east and the south previously week of their counteroffensive in opposition to Russian forces, Ukraine’s Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar stated on Monday.

The advances introduced the entire territory recaptured thus far through the counteroffensive to greater than 210 sq km, she stated in updates on the Telegram messaging app.

Ukraine launched its counteroffensive in June, aiming to retake occupied territory and seize the initiative in Russia’s full-scale invasion, now in its seventeenth month.

Maliar stated troops had retaken 7 sq km previously week within the path of Bakhmut within the east, a small metropolis captured by Russian forces in Might after the bloodiest fight of the warfare. That introduced the entire recaptured within the space to 31 sq km.

Within the south, the place Ukrainian forces are attempting to advance in direction of the cities of Berdyansk and Melitopol, they’d recaptured practically 11 sq km previously week, bringing the entire territory recaptured there to just about 180 sq km.

Maliar added that Russian forces have been advancing because the finish of final week in direction of the town of Kupiansk within the japanese Kharkiv area.

(Reporting by Anna Pruchnicka; Modifying by Muralikumar Anantharaman and Peter Graff)

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