Ukrainian fighters driving Kyiv’s counteroffensive operations are making “small advances” in several areas, including the Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions and around Bakhmut, Britain’s Defense Ministry said Sunday. Follow our live updates:
The death toll from the explosion at the Kakhovka dam and the floods it unleashed has risen to 16said. More than 3,500 people, including hundreds of children, have been evacuated from the flooded regions, it said. About 1,300 homes remain underwater, most of them in the Kherson area, it added.
About 25,000 kilometers of road in Ukraine needs to be rebuilt after heavy fighting in the war, Ukrainian lawmaker Lesia Vasylenko said. Russian shelling continues to cause “massive destruction to the critical infrastructure needed for the country to run,” she said.The initial days of Ukraine’s counteroffensive may have yielded minor gains, but Russia has used the past seven months, Mary Ilyushina reports, to shore up its reserves and ammunition and gather more drones.
While Russia’s defense has weaknesses, military experts said, it is likely to slow down and impede Ukraine’s plans. “They’ve had months to create a defensive plan, they’ve dug in and used the terrain, they’ve been sitting there for six months laying little traps and mines,” said Dara Massicot, an expert on the Russian military at Rand Corp. “They feel as confident as they are probably going to feel that they understand their defensive lines.
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