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Ukraine: Kupiansk, a nerve center for Russian supplies, is freed

2022-09-10T12:37:30.767Z


For the 007s in London, the Russian defensive front is under pressure in the north and south. German Foreign Minister Baerbock visits Kiev (ANSA)


The war in Ukraine marks a turning point today: "

Kupiansk

is Ukraine

. Glory to the armed forces": the advisor to the president of the Kharkiv Regional Council, Nataliya Popova, wrote on social media, announcing the

liberation of the city

.

Unian reports it.

British Defense Ministry intelligence in its morning update wrote that the liberation of Kupiansk "would be a major blow to Moscow because it is located along the supply routes of the Donbass front line."

The eastern Ukrainian city was occupied by the Russians on February 27, three days after the invasion.

Today the Ukrainian army also liberated the village of Grakove.

Ukrainian special forces have posted images on social media showing the officers "in Kupiansk, which was and will always be Ukraine".

A regional official also posted a photo of Ukrainian soldiers in the city of 27,000.

Also in the east of the country, in the village of Grakove freed today by the Ukrainian forces, the soldiers of Kiev found fallen electric pylons, cables scattered on the ground, gutted houses, streets dotted with craters: the road leading to Grakove from the second city of the 'Ukraine, Kharkiv, is lined with skeletons of cars destroyed by explosions or crushed by tanks.

This morning the flag of Ukraine was officially in Balakliya, in the Kharkiv region.

together with the military.

The British 007 report


According to the latest

British intelligence report

, the Ukrainian counter-offensive launched on September 6 in the south of the Kharkiv region, in the north-east, took Russian forces by surprise, while the counter-offensive in the Kherson region continues. south.

With these two operations, the Russian defensive front is under pressure on both the northern and southern flanks.

In the Kharkiv region, Ukrainian troops have gained up to 50 kilometers of land along a narrow front previously occupied by the Russians and have taken over or surrounded numerous cities.

As a result, Russian forces around the city of Izium are increasingly isolated and Ukrainian units now threaten the city of Kupiansk.

The war on the ground


Two civilians were killed and five others were injured during yesterday's Russian bombing in Ukraine's

Donetsk

region (east): the head of the regional military administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said on Facebook, according to reports. Ukrinform.

Overall, 821 civilians have been killed in this region and 2,053 injured since the invasion began on 24 February.

A 62-year-old woman died last night as a result of Russian bombing in the

Kharkiv region

: the state emergency service has announced, according to Ukrinform.

The woman was killed in the village of Vodolaha when a Russian missile hit her home.

Russia then sent 1,300 Chechen soldiers to the Kherson region, as reported by the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, underlining that the soldiers were sent to support the Moscow troops in the occupied areas of the region, in the context of the Ukrainian counter-offensive.

The diplomatic front


On the diplomatic front there was a surprise visit today to Kiev by the German Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, to demonstrate Berlin's strong support for Ukraine in its war against Russia.

"Today I am in Kiev to show that they can continue to count on us. That we will continue to stand by Ukraine for as long as necessary, with arms supplies and humanitarian and financial support," said Baerbock.

Source: ansa

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