Russia's defense minister says southeast Ukraine has become the most recent hot spot for battles in the 18-month war as Kyiv’s forces press ahead with their counteroffensive.
Shoigu told Russian military officers that Ukraine has brought up reserve brigades there that were trained by Kyiv’s Western allies. He offered no evidence for his claim, which could not be independently verified.
Shoigu’s assertion was corroborated in part by other reports and assessments of Ukraine’s three-month-old effort to drive out the Kremlin’s troops. However, it said it was unable to state that the defense was fully breached, because no Ukrainian heavy armor has been witnessed in the area. Since the grinding counteroffensive began about three months ago, Ukraine has advanced 7 kilometers in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukrainian officials claim. Troops surmounted dense Russian fortifications last week to. That was Ukraine’s first tactically significant victory in that part of the country.
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