Ukraine assures that it continues to recover ground in Kharkov and Donetsk

“The liberation of settlements from the Russian invaders in the Kharkov and Donetsk regions continues. As previously reported, during their withdrawal, Russian troops quickly abandon their positions and flee to temporarily occupied territory or to Russia,” he explained today. the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army, before emphasizing that “this trend persists”. “The enemy concentrates his efforts on establishing control over the territory of the Donetsk region, holding the temporarily captured territories and disrupting the offensive of our troops in certain addresses. The enemy continues to attack our positions, carry out aerial reconnaissance and try to take measures to restore the lost positions.”

The Air Moldova airline will not resume direct flights to Moscow as announced a few days ago, according to a company statement. “Air Moldova will not be able to charter previously announced flights on the route Chisinau-Moscow Since the 1st of october. Ticket sales to Moscow have been suspended,” he said. The move follows a directive from the former Soviet republic’s Civil Aviation Authority that prohibits domestic airlines from flying in Russian airspace.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine have assured this Monday that they have killed 300 Russian soldiers in the framework of the fighting registered during the last day, a period in which the Ukrainian forces “have managed to expel the enemy from more than 20 settlements”. “The Russian enemy suffered the greatest losses during the last day in the direction of Krivoy Rog and Donetsk,” they noted.

Russian citizens have lost access to the European Union’s visa facilitation agreement with Russia on Monday, so permits to travel through the Schengen area from this day they are more difficult to obtain and cost 80 euros. The EU approved on Friday the proposal made by the European Commission following the political agreement of the foreign ministers, who discussed this issue in Prague the previous week at the proposal of the Baltic partners and Finland.

Since the war began, Ukraine has destroyed more than 2,000 tanks, 4,500 armored fighting vehicles, 250 planes and 200 Russian helicopters, the Ukrainian president announced in his usual evening speech, Volodymyr Zelensky. The Ukrainian leader has assured that his armed forces have also killed more than a thousand artillery systems, another thousand drones, 15 ships and boats and “thousands of other units of enemy equipment.” “Today everyone comes and takes note” of the actions of the Ukrainian Army “in the north, south and east Ukraine”, assured the president, for whom “the world is impressed” and “the enemy is panicking”. In his speech to the Ukrainian military, the president assured that “the road to victory is difficult”, but he is sure that they are capable of it.

The success of Ukrainian forces in expelling Russian troops from the Kharkov region “has significant implications for Russia’s overall operational design,” according to the UK Ministry of Defense, and for the morale of his soldiers on the ground. “It is very likely that the majority of the force in Ukraine will be forced to prioritize emergency defensive actions,” he said in a Twitter post Monday morning. “The already limited trust that deployed troops have in Russia’s top military brass is likely to deteriorate further.” Russia probably ordered the withdrawal of its troops from the entire occupied Kharkov region, west of the Oskil River, according to the British Defense Ministry.

Latest Defense Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 12 September 2022

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