The Russian occupation authorities of the Luhansk and Kherson regions announced on Tuesday that the advance of Ukrainian troops had been halted in some areas of the front, although primarily in Kherson the Russian army was forced to retreat in the face of the onslaught of Ukrainian troops, AFP and EFE news agencies reported. report cited by Agerpres.

The leader of the Kherson occupiers, Volodymyr Saldo, recognized the Ukrainian “infiltration” and the loss of the village of Duchane by Russian troops, but assured that the Russian aircraft “stopped” the advance of Ukrainian troops, who on Monday advanced dozens of villages. kilometers along the western bank of the Dnieper, trying to surround a group of approximately 20,000 Russian soldiers from the eastern bank of the river.

“The advance of Ukrainian-Nazis in the area of ​​Dutsenia has been stopped (…) There is no need to panic,” one of Saldo’s deputies, Kyrylo Stremusov, said on Tuesday.

However, as reported by the Russian channel “Rybar” in Telegram, which monitors the movement of Russian troops, the continuation of the advance of Ukrainian troops in the area of ​​Arkhangelsk and Dyuka with the aim of cutting the communication routes of the armed formations of the Russian Federation on the right bank of the Dnieper. was observed

Ukrainians liberated new settlements in the Kherson region

The Ukrainian army retook the settlements of Arkhangelske and Myrolyubivka, and the Russian troops also withdrew from the settlements of Zolota Balka and Oleksandrivka.

In recent weeks, Ukrainian troops have focused their fire on Russian positions and warehouses on the right bank of the Dnieper and on the bridges across this river.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi said in his message on Monday evening that “new villages have been liberated in several regions”, and in recent days more and more footage has appeared showing soldiers raising the Ukrainian flag in villages in the north of the Kherson region.

The eponymous capital of this southern Ukrainian province, which was almost entirely occupied at the start of the invasion launched in February, is the only major Ukrainian city captured by Russian forces since then.

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The separatists in Luhansk are also talking about the Ukrainian attacks

In his Tuesday message sent to Telegram from the city of Kherson, Kyrylo Stremusov claims that “explosions can be heard from a distance, but not very often.” The day before, Stremousov filmed himself against the background of the Antonivsky Bridge to show that he did not flee the region, and asked people to remain calm.

On the front in eastern Ukraine, a representative of Russian forces in the Luhansk region told TASS that Ukrainian forces are still trying to break through Russian defense lines near the city of Kreminna.

According to the cited source, Ukrainian troops “are suffering huge losses, but despite this they are trying to advance.” One of the commanders of the separatist forces in Luhansk tried to justify the recent defeats of Moscow’s armed forces on live air on Russian television.

After a series of heavy defeats suffered by Russian forces in recent weeks following Ukrainian counter-offensives, particularly in the northeastern region of Kharkiv, where the Ukrainian army has recaptured more than 450 settlements, Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to mobilize 300,000 reservists to reinforce the troops. on the Ukrainian front and formalize the annexation of the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.

But after Ukrainian counteroffensives, none of these areas are now fully controlled by Russian troops.

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