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The morale of the Ukrainian troops appears to be through the roof after their successful counteroffensive in the Kharkov region, in the northeast of the country. An operation meticulously studied for months and executed in a matter of days that has made the Russian army hastily back down.
kyiv has managed to recover nearly 3,000 square kilometers in the northwest of the country, including some key populations such as Izium, where two graves have been found with more than 600 bodies. However, this was not the original objective of the Ukrainian forces who now seek to return to the initial plan: reconquer jerón, situated to the southeast.
The gains made in Kharkov were made possible by the support of the United States, which helped to design the attack strategy, which has changed over time. According to anonymous official sources to New York Timesinitially, the Ukrainian army devised a plan to launch a broad assault to recapture Kherson and isolate Mariupolpol in the east.
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However, officials on both sides thought that such an attack on a large scale it would cause a large number of casualties and would not serve to recover large tracts of territory. So they temporarily abandoned the idea of a big offensive and changed it to A double: in Kherson and in the Kharkov area.
After assessing the risks, the sources consulted by the American newspaper point out, it was decided to focus all efforts on Kharkov and temporarily set aside the operation in the south, where there was a large concentration of Russian soldiers. Given the results, it seems that it was a wise choice.
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However, now, Zelesnsky’s soldiers who seize himRussia’s vulnerabilities and resume what they left on hiatus for a few months. So while they maintain their offensive capacity in the north and timidly try to advance towards the Donbas region, made up of the Oblast of Luhansk and Donetsk and occupied by Russia, they have begun to push in Kherson and Mariupol.
It is an essential area for Russia, since it has become an important resource base that supplies the Crimean peninsula, illegally annexed in 2014.
The women stand near a residential building destroyed by a military attack in the city of Izium.
In this sense, the Ukrainians have intensified ground attacks to the northwest of the city of Kherson, near the head of the bridge over the Inhulets River, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
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In fact, the kyiv authorities claimed that they had destroyed a dam in Chornohorka, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, to achieve uA drop in the water level in the Ingulets Riverwhich had increased due to a missile attack by Russian troops against hydraulic infrastructure in the area.
Despite the fact that the information coming from the Ukrainians arrives by the dropper, through the unofficial channels, military bloggers they point out that they have liberated Kyselivka northwest of the city of Kherson. Others, however, point out that Russian forces are mining all the roads in the settlement, according to the ISW.
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