Kiev (EFE).- The Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelenski, celebrated after visiting his soldiers who fight on the front line in the eastern region of Donetsk, the advances made by the Ukrainian army “in all directions” of the front.
“Today our fighters have advanced in all directions, and it is a happy day,” Zelensky said in a recorded address to the nation last night on the train returning from the front.
Hours before that evening address by the president, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense had reported advances of between one and two kilometers in the Bakhmut area, in Donetsk, and recovery, in the south of the town of Rivnopil.
Rivnopil is a town located in the south-west of Donetsk, near the administrative border with the neighboring region of Zaporizhia.
Getting to Crimea
From the area where the two provinces intersect, Ukraine intends to advance south to reach the Sea of Azov and cut the corridor that connects the occupied Crimean peninsula with Russia by land.
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a popular American think tank that analyzes the conflict, has confirmed by geolocation the liberation of Rivnopil by Ukraine.
According to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Russia continues to focus its offensive efforts, which according to the source are unsuccessful, in the eastern areas of Liman, Bakhmut and Marinka, while in the southern theaters of operations it concentrates on defending their lines from the Ukrainian offensives.
Ukraine launched its long-awaited counteroffensive more than three weeks ago with offensive operations in three different sections of the front, located in the Donetsk and Zaporizhia regions.