In five days, Ukrainian soldiers have reclaimed more terrain than Russian troops have occupied since April. US experts speak of one of Kiev’s greatest military successes.
According to US experts, Ukrainian soldiers have regained more territory in five days than Russian troops have occupied since April. “The liberation of Izyum will be Ukraine’s greatest military success since the victory in the Battle of Kyiv in March,” said the Institute for the Study of the War (ISW) in its analysis of the situation. As a result, Russia’s planned advance on the Donbass from the north failed, the experts said.
Since the beginning of the war, the think tank in Washington has regularly published analyzes of the fighting in Ukraine. Sunday is the 200th day of the Russian war of aggression.
Russian troops partially cut off
Meanwhile, after the rapid advance of the Ukrainian military in the north-east of the country, not all Russian troops managed to retreat, according to information from Kyiv. “In the Kharkiv area, enemy units from the 3rd Motorized Rifle Division of the 20th Army are cut off from the supply routes and are in a panic,” the Ukrainian General Staff said in its situation report on Sunday. In addition, the losses on the Russian side were high, with 400 dead in one day. The information has not been independently verified.
Russian troops withdraw
After successful Ukrainian counterattacks, Russian troops are apparently also withdrawing from the northern part of the Kharkiv region. According to media reports on Sunday, residents in the village of Kosacha Lopan, 30 kilometers north of the metropolis of Kharkiv, hoisted the Ukrainian flag. The Russian units had previously left the site, almost four kilometers from the Russian border, which had been occupied at the beginning of the Russian war of aggression at the end of February.
On Saturday Moscow had already announced the withdrawal of troops from strategic cities in the south of the Kharkiv region. Moscow officially justified the withdrawal by saying that units in the neighboring Donetsk region should be reinforced. However, many experts assume that the Russians have recently come under so much pressure in view of the Ukrainian advance in the Kharkiv region that they have decided to flee.
According to their own statements, Ukrainian troops have recaptured more than 3,000 square kilometers since the beginning of September as part of a counter-offensive.
According to earlier reports, Russian troops occupied around 125,000 square kilometers in Ukraine, a fifth of the country’s territory including the Crimean peninsula.
Source: Stern
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