The figure is about 30% higher than the area mentioned on Saturday by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Earlier this month, the Ukrainian military first announced a counteroffensive in the south of the country, before making a lightning advance this week in the northeast, the speed of which apparently took Russian forces by surprise.
In his daily speech on the 200th day of the conflict, Zelensky thanked the Ukrainian military for “liberating hundreds of our cities and/or towns, the most recent being Balakliia, Izium and Kupiansk.”
In the areas recovered by Ukraine, yesterday it was possible to see charred Russian trucks and armored vehicles, some of them with the letter Z, the symbol of the invasion on February 24.
The governor of the Russian province of Belgorod, which borders Ukraine, said that thousands of people had fled from Kharkov to Russia. “It has not been the easiest night or morning. In the last 24 hours, thousands of people crossed the border,” Gladkov noted on Telegram.
These locations are important logistics nodes, which Russia depends on to supply its troops in eastern Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Army penetrated at some points to a depth “of 70 kilometers”, and in five days took “more territories than those conquered by the Russians in all their operations since April”, detailed the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) , based in Washington.
“We will expel the occupiers from every city and village in Ukraine,” Zelensky congratulated himself, while the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, thanked “the partners who answered the call, because Ukraine’s successes in the field of battle are shared successes” and asked the West to send more material.
This announcement by the Ukrainian Army came after the “regrouping” of Russian troops from Kharkov to the province of Donetsk, one of the two that make up the southern region of Donbas, also a focus of fighting, to concentrate their movements there.
The Russian announcement of a withdrawal, along with the Ukrainian version that it entered the town of Kupiansk, are the most significant changes in the battle dynamics after months of fighting in eastern Ukraine, which was dominated by Russia.
Contrary to what Ukraine maintains, Russia does not attribute its reorganization to military defeats but to tactical reasons.
Source: Ambito
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