Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky celebrated Monday after visiting his front-line soldiers in the eastern region. Donetsk the Advances made by the Ukrainian military on “all directions” of the front on Monday.
“Our fighters have advanced in all directions, and today is a happy day,” Zelensky said in his last recorded speech to the nation on the returning train from the front.
Hours before Zelensky’s evening speech, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense had reported advances of one to two kilometers in the Bakhmut area, The recovery of the town of Rivnopil in Donetsk and in the southern part of the front.
Rivnopil is a town southwest of Donetsk, close to the administrative border with the neighboring region. Zaporizhia. From the region where the two provinces intersect, To reach the Sea of Azov, Ukraine is trying to move south and cut the corridor connecting the occupied Crimean peninsula by land. Russia.
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a popular American think tank that analyzes the conflict, has confirmed, through geolocation, that Rivnopil was liberated by Ukraine.
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russia continues to focus its offensive efforts on the eastern front, Liman, Bakhmut and Marinka regions, which, according to the source, failed, while concentrating on the southern theaters of operations. while defending its lines against Ukrainian attacks.
Ukraine launched its long-awaited counteroffensive more than three weeks ago. With offensive operations on three different parts of the front located in the Donetsk and Zaporozhye regions.