Ukraine is convinced that it can militarily expel the Russian occupiers from the country.
The news ticker on Monday, September 19th.
Ukrainian counter-offensive:
bridgehead established for possible continuation.
Nuclear power plant Pivdennoukrainsk:
Ukraine reports rocket hit.
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Kyiv/Moscow - In the Ukraine war, the Ukrainian armed forces pose major problems for the Russian invaders with their counter-offensive.
Now the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj announced new attacks on the occupied territory in Ukraine.
"Perhaps it seems to some of you that after a series of victories there has been silence, but it is not silence," Zelenskyy said in his daily video address.
Rather, this is the preparation for the next offensive, the goal of which is the recapture of Mariupol, Melitopol and Cherson.
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Ukrainian troops have almost completely liberated the Kharkiv region.
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According to Zelenskyy, Ukraine will not only focus on the areas it controlled before the Russian attack in February.
The 44-year-old announced that the territories of the Moscow-backed separatists in the east of the country and cities in Crimea, which had been annexed by Russia since 2014, would also be recaptured.
"All of Ukraine must be free."
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News about the Ukraine war: bridgehead for a possible continuation of the offensive
Kyiv draws its self-confidence from its own recent offensive in the north of the country.
Most of the Kharkiv region was liberated.
The Russian troops set up the new front on the east bank of the Oskil River, but this line also seems to be shaky.
According to their own statements, the Ukrainian military was able to cross troop units on the river and thus form a bridgehead to the east.
“The Ukrainian forces have overcome the Oskil.
As of yesterday, Ukraine also controls the left bank,” the press service of the Ukrainian Armed Forces announced via video on its Telegram channel.
Earlier there were reports that Kyiv had secured control of the eastern part of the city of Kupyansk.
The information cannot be verified independently.
News about the Ukraine war: Kyiv reports a rocket hit at the Piwdennoukrainsk nuclear power plant
According to the operator, a Russian missile landed near the Pivdennoukrainsk nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine.
It exploded about 300 meters from the reactors and damaged various buildings.
The Piwdennoukrainsk nuclear power plant is located almost three hundred kilometers south of the capital Kyiv.
There are three reactors in operation with a net output of 2850 megawatts.
The Russian leadership has meanwhile denied the government in Kyiv's accusation of having committed war crimes in the Kharkiv region.
"That's a lie," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the
Interfax
news agency .
Russia will defend the "truth".
(dpa/cs)
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