Zelensky indicates that the Ukrainian counteroffensive is underway

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave a clearer indication that his military’s effort to liberate the territory held by the Russian occupation forces is underway, saying that “relevant counteroffensive and defensive years are taking place in Ukraine.”

Speaking in Kiev this Saturday (10), the Ukrainian leader was asked to respond to the comments of Russian Vladimir Putin, who stated on the sixth fair (9) that the Ukrainian counteroffensive had certainly begun – and was not succeeding.

Zelensky ignored Putin’s suggestions that the Ukrainian armed forces were fighting and tried to apply some psychological pressure of his own.

“It’s interesting that Putin is talking about our counteroffensive,” Zelensky said in response. “It’s important that Russia feel (the counteroffensive), feel that they don’t have much time left.”

Zelensky said that “relevant counteroffensive and defensive actions are taking place in Ukraine”, but that “he will not give details about the status in which it is”.

After spending most of the winter involved in fighting around the city of Bakhmut, more than thirty soldiers and waiting for the arrival of Western military aid, such as tanks and long-range attack weapons, the last few weeks saw Ukraine intensify activities military.

This included modeling operations – attacks on some behind the front lines, such as fuel depots and quarts of soldiers and, more recently, the Ukrainian military conducted probing operations, designed to test enemy failure points, as well as their own. combat readiness.

No meanwhile, it is still long to be clear that Ukraine has begun to move a large number of ground forces in an attempt to recapture the swaths of territory held by the Russian occupation forces.

The Ministry of Defense of Russia is reporting new Ukrainian offensive operations along the line facing south-eastern Zaporizhzhia, at a level of intensity consistent with that observed since the beginning of the week.

Troops from the Vostok brigade southeast of the city of Orikhiv, on the front line, will repel two attempts to advance by Ukrainian tank units, according to a Telegram post from the Ministry of Defense.

Furthermore, two Ukrainian armored columns were repelled near the villages of Novodanilovka and Mala Tamkachka.

In the same area, Russian military bloggers reported that Russian troops in positions near the road south of Orikhiv in the direction of Tokmak will continue to report extremely heavy Ukrainian artillery fire.

Further east along the front line, southwest of Velyka Novosilka, in the Donetsk region, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that the Ukrainian forces made three more attempts to advance, which, secondly, were all defeated.