Heavy preventing continues in Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia area, with Ukrainian troops, supported by tanks, artillery, and drones, trying to advance south of the town of Orikhiv for a second consecutive night time. Military specialists imagine that the primary target of Ukraine’s counter-offensive might be on regaining access to the Sea of Azov and dividing the Russian forces in the area to weaken their combat capabilities.
Although Kyiv remains tight-lipped concerning the counter-offensive, the US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) introduced on Thursday that it had begun. The UK defence ministry additionally stated that heavy preventing was ongoing alongside a number of sectors of the entrance, and Ukraine held the initiative in most areas.
Russia took management of a big portion of the Zaporizhzhia area, including Europe’s largest nuclear energy plant, after President Vladimir Putin initiated a full-scale invasion in February 2022. However, Ukraine still controls the regional capital, Zaporizhzhia metropolis. Late on Thursday, a quantity of Russian pro-Kremlin military bloggers reported that Ukraine had resumed its assaults overnight, deploying armoured personnel carriers and drones to direct artillery hearth.
Vladimir Rogov, a Russian-installed native official, confirmed that there was active combating between Orikhiv and Tokmak, with Russian troops holding their positions. Marked down view the town of Tokmak as a key goal for Ukraine in its push in path of the Sea of Azov. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu claimed that the sooner Ukrainian assault had been repelled, inflicting harm to the enemy, but offered no evidence to support his assertion.
Ukraine’s Deputy Defence Minister, Hanna Maliar, announced on Thursday that Russian forces had been presently in energetic defence in the Zaporizhzhia path. In a latest bulletin, Ukraine’s navy acknowledged that the enemy continued to be on the defensive towards Zaporizhzhia and in the neighbouring Kherson area, which skilled huge flooding after a significant dam collapsed earlier this week. The Ukrainian navy also reported that Russian troops had carried out air strikes and used artillery through the day..