Ukraine has now taken back about 47 square kilometers of territory around Bakhmut since starting its counteroffensive in early June, Deputy Defense MInister Hanna Maliar says
KYIV, Ukraine – Ukraine said on Monday its troops had regained more territory on the eastern front and were advancing south in their counteroffensive against Russian forces while President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited two front-line areas.
Ukraine has now taken back about 47 square kilometers of territory around Bakhmut since starting its counteroffensive in early June, Maliar wrote on the Telegram messaging app. Zelenskiy was shown presenting medals to soldiers at a number of sites and offering thanks to medics at a field hospital on the southern front.
Kyiv officials have bristled at criticism in Western media reports that the counteroffensive has been too slow and hindered by poor tactics — particularly positioning troops in too many locations.Kyiv has retaken a number of villages and settlements in its three-month-old offensive but its soldiers have been hampered by vast Russian minefields and trenches.
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