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Ukrainian forces “inflicted a primary operational defeat” on Russia, retaking almost the entire Kharkiv region in a counteroffensive, according to strategists.
“Ukraine’s good fortune is the result of a skillful design and execution of the crusade that included efforts to maximize the effect of Western weapons systems such as HIMARS,” the Institute for the Study of War said in its latest assessment of the war in Ukraine, referring to high-mobility artillery. Rocket systems.
Ukrainian forces have retaken dozens of towns and villages in the country’s northeast in recent days, adding the strategically vital city of Izyum and, lately, Kupiansk.
Ukraine’s counteroffensive in the northeast came here after its much-vaunted counteroffensive in the south around Kherson saw Russia redeploy troops out of the region to protect the spaces it occupied in the south.
So this month, Ukrainian forces regained 3,000 square kilometers (about 1,158 square miles) of Russian-occupied territory, according to the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhnyi.
Ukraine has retaken more than 6,000 kilometers (2,300 miles) of Russian-occupied territory, President Zelenskyy said Late Monday.
“From the beginning of September until today, our infantrymen have already liberated more than 6,000 square kilometers of the territory of Ukraine, east and south. The movement of our troops continues,” President Zelensky said in his evening address.
The Ukrainian armed forces have made great strides over the past week in reclaiming dozens of villages in northeastern Ukraine, in the Kharkiv region, as well as around Kherson in the south.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense along the retaken area to the U. S. state of Delaware.
—Holly Ellyatt
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called world leaders Russia a terrorist state.
“Yesterday and today, the Russian military hit Ukraine’s electrical infrastructure. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians were left without electricity. Houses, hospitals, schools, communal infrastructure, Russian missiles hit exactly those elements that surely have nothing to do with the infrastructure of our country’s armed forces,” Zelenskyy said in an evening speech on the messaging app Telegram, according to an NBC News translation.
“To protect ourselves from this, we want to increase our cooperation. Together, we can defeat Russian terrorism. Russia will have to be identified as a terrorist state,” Zelenskyy said.
Zelenskyy also called for a new European Union sanctions circular and a buildup of security assistance programs.
—Amanda Macias
The White House praised Ukraine’s meteoric advances over the weekend and said the United States will continue to provide Kyiv with more military aid.
“As we have said many times, we are not going to speak on behalf of Ukrainians, we will let Ukraine describe its operations. But it is clear that they are fighting hard to protect their country and regain territory,” he said. Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Air Force One.
“We will continue with their desire to succeed on the battlefield, which has been our goal, as everyone knows,” he said, adding that the United States has so far committed $14. 5 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of the war in Russia. end of February.
—Amanda Macias
More than 7. 1 million Ukrainians have refugees and have moved to neighboring countries since Russia invaded Ukraine last February, according to estimates by the UN Refugee Agency.
Nearly four million of those other people have sought temporary resident prestige in neighboring Western countries, according to data compiled by the agency.
“The escalation of the fighting in Ukraine has resulted in civilian casualties and the destruction of civilian infrastructure, forcing others to flee their homes in search of safety, cover and assistance,” the UN Refugee Agency wrote.
—Amanda Macias
The UN’s acting human rights leader has suggested European Union member states “back down” in their efforts to expand power and renewable energy projects at a time when high energy costs have led some to step up the use and studies of fossil fuels.
Nada al-Nashif, acting United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, defined the rights considerations of more than 30 countries, regions and territories, Ethiopia, Ukraine, Myanmar and Haiti, in a keynote address at the last consultation of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. .
In addition to expressing concerns about the direct effect of Russia’s war on Ukraine, he noted how the war has hampered the food and fuel exports of those two countries, which are the main manufacturers of both, forcing EU states, for example, to rush. for more energy sources.
“With rising energy costs threatening to hit the most vulnerable as winter approaches, some EU member states are turning to investment in infrastructure and fossil fuel supply,” al-Nashif said.
– Associated Press
The organization that oversees Ukraine’s export of agricultural products said 122 ships have left the besieged country since ports reopened.
The Joint Coordination Center, an initiative of Ukraine, Russia, the United Nations and Turkey, said the ships were carrying a total of 2. 7 million metric tons of grains and food products.
—Amanda Macias
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia saw no opportunity for Ukraine and Russia to negotiate an end to the war.
“Lately we see no prospects for negotiation and we continue to affirm the absence of preconditions for such negotiations,” Peskov told a news conference, according to an NBC News translation.
“The army’s special operation continues and will continue until all the objectives set out in the first place are achieved,” he added, without elaborating.
Peskov’s comments come as Ukrainian forces recaptured the entire Kharkiv region last week.
—Amanda Macias
The United Nations has dumped 5,827 civilians dead and 8,421 wounded in Ukraine since Russia invaded its former Soviet neighbor on Feb. 24.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said the death toll in Ukraine is likely to be higher, as the armed clash may delay reports of deaths.
The foreign organization said most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons with a wide effect in the area, adding heavy artillery fire and multiple rocket launchers, as well as missiles and airstrikes.
—Amanda Macias
Ukraine and Russia are interested in the International Atomic Energy Agency’s proposal to create a cover zone around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, according to the head of the U. N. nuclear watchdog.
IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi on Monday saw “signs that they are interested in this deal,” he told a news conference.
“What I see is two games with us, asking questions, a lot of questions. “
The nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine is a permanent bone of contention for Ukraine and Russia, with both sides accusing the other of bombing facilities Russia has occupied since the beginning of the war.
The IAEA has conducted a defense inspection of the site in recent weeks and has called for a “nuclear defense zone and cover” around the plant, Europe’s largest nuclear facility, in an attempt at an accident.
Ukraine has called for the demilitarization of the plant and the IAEA has called for an end to all bombing of the facility.
—Holly Ellyatt
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov insisted Monday that the “army’s special operation,” as he calls the invasion of Ukraine, will continue despite the loss of dozens of occupied towns and villages in the northeastern Kharkiv region.
Russian forces were “regrouped and redistributed” to protect occupied territory in neighboring Donetsk after Ukraine introduced a wonderful counterattack around Kharkiv. Ukraine took advantage of Russia’s redeployment of many troops into southern Ukraine to launch a high-profile counteroffensive.
Putin’s press secretary said Monday that the Russian president “receives reports on everything that happens in the army’s special operation, adding the regrouping of Russian troops. “
Asked if the country’s army rulers still enjoy the trust of the head of state, Peskov told reporters that “the army’s special operation continues and will continue until the first set goals are achieved,” Russian news firm Tass reported.
The Kremlin spokesman did not comment on reports that the commander of the Western Military District had been fired. “This should be sent back to the Defense Ministry,” Peskov said.
—Holly Ellyatt
A Russian-installed official in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region said on Monday that Ukrainian forces outnumbered Russian and pro-Russian forces in a Ukrainian blitzkrib counteroffensive in the region last week, Reuters reported.
Speaking to state television channel Rossiya-24, Vitaly Ganchev said Ukrainian forces had in the past captured Russian settlements in the north of the region, crossing the border into Russia, and that “around 5,000” civilians had been evacuated to Russia. . .
Ganchev said that “the scenario is becoming more and more complicated throughout the hour,” adding that the border with Russia’s Belgorod region is now closed. Reuters may simply not verify reports on the battlefield.
Over the weekend, Ukrainian forces invaded the main Russian centers of origin of Izium and Kupiansk, where the Russian administration of the Kharkiv region was located.
On Sunday, Russia’s Defense Ministry released a map indicating that Russian forces had almost completely abandoned the Kharkiv region.
—Reuters
Ukraine is still looking to repair power and water materials in the Kharkiv region after missile attacks over the weekend, following Ukrainian counterattacks in the region, supply cuts.
The deputy head of the Ukrainian president’s office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, said monday on Telegram that 80% of electricity and water in the Kharkiv region had been restored. “We are still working,” Tymoshenko said.
Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov told Telegram on Sunday that Russian missile attacks on infrastructure in Kharkiv left no water and electricity.
He said the moves were a “revenge” for the “successes of our army on the front, especially in the Kharkiv region. “around Kharkiv in the northeast.
President Zelenskyy said there was a “total blackout” affecting the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions, as well as a partial blackout in the Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk and Sumy regions, following Russian missile movements over the weekend.
He said on Twitter that Russian forces “remain terrorists and attack critical infrastructure. There are no military installations, the goal is to deprive other people of light and heat. “
—Holly Ellyatt
Most likely, Russian troops are taking off entirely from Ukraine’s Kharkiv Oblast in the face of a large-scale Ukrainian counteroffensive that began late last week, the British government said in an update on Monday.
The British Ministry of Defence follows a slew of social media posts through Ukrainian troops that appear to show them advancing through cities tens of miles east of where the front stood just five days ago.
“In the face of Ukrainian advances, Russia ordered the withdrawal of its troops from the entire occupied Kharkiv Oblast west of the Oskil River,” the ministry said, adding that “since Wednesday, Ukraine has regained at least twice as much territory as Greater London. “
In a Telegram article over the weekend, the Russian Defense Ministry said Moscow had to “regroup” some troops outside Kharkiv Oblast.
Ukrainian successes in the north at Kharkiv, along with advances in the south at Kherson, likely forced Moscow to devote its forces to “emergency defensive actions,” the British ministry said.
“The already limited confidence of deployed troops in Russia’s more sensible military leadership is likely to worsen further,” he added.
—Ted Kemp
Ukrainian forces have already recovered 3,000 kilometers (about 1,158 miles) of Russian-occupied territory this month and are pushing Russian forces back to the border with Ukraine, according to the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhnyi.
“Since the beginning of September, more than 3,000 square kilometers have returned to Ukrainian control,” the general leader said Sunday on Telegram.
“In the direction of Kharkiv, we began to advance not only south and east, but also north,” Zaluzhnyi said, adding that Ukrainian forces were now about 50 kilometers from the border with Russia.
—Holly Ellyatt
Ukrainian forces “inflicted a primary operational defeat” on Russia, retaking almost the entire Kharkiv region in a counteroffensive, according to strategists at the Institute for the Study of War.
“Ukraine’s fate is the result of a skillful design and execution of the crusade that included efforts to maximize the effect of Western weapons systems like HIMARS,” ISW said in its latest assessment of the war in Ukraine.
Ukrainian forces went on to retake dozens of cities and towns in the country’s northeast in recent days, adding the strategically vital city of Izyum and, recently, Kupiansk. Ukraine’s counteroffensive in the northeast came after its much-vaunted counteroffensive in the south around Kherson saw Russia redeploy troops out of the region to protect the spaces it occupied in the south.
ISW strategists noted that the Ukrainian armed forces had used HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems) and other Western systems to attack Russian land lines of communication in the Kharkiv and Kherson regions in southern Ukraine, “setting the situations for the good fortune of this operation. “. . “
“The Ukrainian leadership, however, moves in the south in a much more ostentatious way, managing to confuse the Russians about their intentions in Kharkiv Oblast [province]. “
ISW noted that while Western weapons systems were still not sufficient to ensure Ukraine’s good fortune, “the use of those systems through its forces in a well-designed and well-executed crusade has generated the remarkable good fortune of counteroffensive operations” in the region around Kharkiv.
—Holly Ellyatt
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry praised several days of successful counterattacks in the domain around the city of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine.
On Twitter on Sunday night, the ministry said that “the counteroffensive is underway in the Kharkiv region. Dozens of villages have been liberated. “
The Ukrainian military also put Hoptivka, a village on the Ukrainian-Ukrainian border, under Ukrainian control, the ministry said, saying it would repair “the territorial integrity of the total of Ukraine, adding Donbass and Crimea. “
Ukraine introduced several counterattacks in northeastern Ukraine last week in a wonderful move that surprised Russia after redeploying many troops in southern Ukraine for a long-awaited Ukrainian counteroffensive.
—Holly Ellyatt
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