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Post by Admin on Sept 14, 2022 0:43:01 GMT
Ukraine retakes more eastern land from Russia, Zelensky claims - BBC News 362,510 views Sep 13, 2022 Ukrainian forces have seized more territory from Russia as they continue their counter-offensive, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
The Ukrainian president has claimed troops have now retaken more than 6,000 sq km (2,317 sq miles) from Russian control in September, in the east and the south.
The BBC cannot verify these figures.
Moscow has described the withdrawal of its troops from the north-eastern Kharkiv region in recent days as a "regrouping", with the aim of focusing on the Luhansk and Donetsk regions in Ukraine's east.
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Post by Admin on Sept 14, 2022 21:52:51 GMT
IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — Hand on heart, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy watched his country’s flag rise Wednesday above the recaptured city of Izium, making a rare foray outside the capital that highlights Moscow’s embarrassing retreat from a Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Russian forces left the war-scarred city last week as Kyiv’s soldiers pressed a stunning advance that has reclaimed large swaths of territory in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region.
As Zelenskyy looked on and sang the national anthem, the Ukrainian flag was raised in front of the burned-out city hall. After almost six months under Russian occupation, Izium was left largely devastated, with apartment buildings blackened by fire and pockmarked by artillery strikes.
A gaping hole and piles of rubble stood where one building had collapsed.
“The view is very shocking, but it is not shocking for me,” Zelenskyy told journalists, “because we began to see the same pictures from Bucha, from the first de-occupied territories … the same destroyed buildings, killed people.”
Bucha is a small city on Kyiv’s outskirts from which Russian forces withdrew in March. In the aftermath, Ukrainian authorities discovered the bodies of hundreds of civilians dumped in streets, yards and mass graves. Many bore signs of torture.
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Post by Admin on Sept 15, 2022 4:35:13 GMT
Ukraine Russia: Zelenskyy makes surprise visit to liberated city after rapid Ukraine advances 85,884 views Sep 15, 2022 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made a surprise visit to Izyum, a newly retaken city in the north east of Ukraine, which has been left devastated by months of Russian occupation. (Subscribe: bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe) Mr Zelenskyy thanked troops who had helped to liberate the area - as they raised the Ukrainian flag over the city. But to the south, Russia fired a salvo of rockets at Mr Zelenskyy's hometown, Kryvyi Rih - in a direct attack on water supplies.
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Post by Admin on Sept 15, 2022 22:35:13 GMT
President Zelensky visits frontline as Ukraine reclaims more territory - BBC News 273,582 views Sep 15, 2022 President Zelensky has made a surprise visit to territory recently freed by his army as Ukrainian forces extend their counteroffensive in towns in the eastern Donbas region.
In the city of Izyum which has been reclaimed from Russian control he vowed to eventually take back all Ukrainian territory.
Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Orla Guerin in the Kharkiv region and from international editor Jeremy Bowen.
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Post by Admin on Sept 16, 2022 21:32:00 GMT
Ex-CIA director predicts ‘terrible, painful retreat’ for Russia 490,326 views Sep 17, 2022 Retired US Army general and former CIA Director David Petraeus tells CNN’s Jim Sciutto that he thinks Ukraine’s counteroffensive has placed Russia in a “disastrous situation.” #CNN #News
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