kyiv sings victory with the largest and fastest advance of its troops after months in which the lines that separate Ukrainians and Russians were stuck in the east of the country.
Local authorities say that their flag has been raised again in Kupiansk and, according to pro-Russian sources, that the Russians have left Izyum.
It is a strategic railway junction for logistical support from Moscow to its men and for their stay in eastern Ukraine.
The British Ministry of Defense confirms these movements and the danger that this counteroffensive poses for Russia's plans.
The Ukrainian Army assures that it is making important advances in the east of the country, according to the president, local authorities and military sources.
In the last few hours, announcements have been made about the terrain that his troops are gaining, the towns that they are recovering in the Kharkov region and how the Russian invaders have no choice but to escape.
At the same time, social networks are filled with publications in which Ukrainian soldiers appear allegedly raising the national flag or singing the anthem in chorus in towns that have been in the hands of Kremlin troops for months.
In some of the videos, local people are seen tearfully welcoming and hugging the newly arrived soldiers.
These are almost always militarily closed zones to which the media are not usually allowed access and where it is not easy to independently confirm the real scope of such information.
It is true that the British Defense Ministry, which permanently monitors the situation, confirms these advances by the Ukrainian Army, which has hit the Russian “by surprise”.
A reporter from the Reuters agency has verified how in one of the recovered areas Ukrainian police officers were already patrolling amid the remains of the fleeing invading troops.
The most critical eastern front line would currently be located around the towns of Kupiansk and Izyum, strategic points for supplying the Russian troops and for the control that the Kremlin has maintained for several months over most of the territory of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, which make up the area known as Donbas.
It is an industrial bastion that occupies the east of Ukraine, with a Russian-speaking population and that has been at war since 2014 when pro-Russian groups rose up against kyiv supported by Moscow.
After the counteroffensive launched since September 6, "Ukrainian units have captured or surrounded several cities", they have managed to penetrate some 50 kilometers into the area occupied by Russian troops and, around the city of Izyum, the Russian force is increasingly " more isolated”, indicates the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom in the report that it publishes daily.
The capture of another key point like Kupiansk by the local military "would be a significant blow to Russia because it is located on the supply routes to the Donbas front line."
If kyiv manages to obstruct Russian communications around Izyum and Kupiansk, this could facilitate the "collapse" of the Kremlin Army in the area, warns the Institute for the Study of War.
Daniil Bezsonov, a pro-Russian leader in the Donetsk region,
The Government of kyiv has reported that in these days they have managed to recover some 1,000 square kilometers that were in the hands of the enemy and that, in the Kharkov region alone, they have regained authority in some thirty localities, as President Volodímir Zelensky highlighted. in his speech on Friday.
According to Armed Forces sources, a process then begins that is repeated in the towns and cities that are “liberated”: demining of the area, deployment of the Security Forces, including the Police, and investigation of the crimes committed under the Russian occupation.
Meanwhile, in the diplomatic arena, for the first time a foreign president on an official visit to Ukraine during the war has spent the night in the capital.
This is the Latvian Egil Levits.
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