Ukraine breaks through enemy lines in Russia-controlled south: ‘Russian losses are really staggering’By Matthew Sedacca
Published Oct. 21, 2023
Ukrainian forces ramped up their attacks on Russian-held territory in the south while holding off Moscow’s assaults on the eastern town of Avdiivka, according to military experts and officials.
The Ukrainian military broke through the enemy lines after intensified assaults across the Dnipro River, near the southern city of Kherson.
“Ukrainian actions appear to be larger than previously observed tactical raids,” the think tank Institute for the Study of War said in a report.
In the town of Avdiivka, just nine miles from the Moscow-controlled city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, Kyiv’s forces managed to repel and hold their ground against Russia, which launched relentless assaults there earlier this month, President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed.
“Thanks to all our boys, who powerfully hold the defense and destroy the occupier day after day,” Zelensky said in a video posted on Telegram.
“These days, the Russian losses are really staggering, and it is precisely losses by the occupier that Ukraine needs.”
Ukraine received new support from the United States in the form of long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems, or ATACMS, which were deployed for the first time this week.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba confirmed to reporters the U.S. would continue to supply Kyiv with the advanced missiles, The Telegraph reported.
Officials have said the ATACMS could help reshape the course of the war by allowing Ukraine’s troops to attack previously unreachable supply lines, air bases and rail networks used by Russia in occupied territories.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/10/21/ukraine-break-through-enemy-lines-in-russia-controlled-south/
