Ukraine is progressing in the south and says it can now attack anywhere in Crimea

The Ukrainian army continued its gradual advance in the southern region of Zaporizhzhya and assured that it can already hit any place on the peninsula of crimeawhile the Russian troops unsuccessfully tried to retake the initiative on the front of Kupianskin the northwest of Ukraine.

Ukrainian forces, according to the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW), have “made tactically significant advances” in the west of the region of Zaporizhzhya.

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Advances in an area with strong defensive lines

In their latest report, experts from ISW point out that both Ukrainian and Russian sources indicate that the security forces kyiv They register progress despite the fact that their advance is taking place in an area of ​​highly prepared defensive lines.

For the Zaporizhzhia and neighboring region Kherson runs the land corridor opened by the Russian Army to link crimeathat Moscow annexed in 2014, to the Russia continental, and whose suppression is key to their plans of Ukraine recover the peninsula.

The choice of Zaporizhzhia as the main axis of the Ukrainian offensive towards the isthmus of the Crimean peninsula is not accidental, since from the north the Kiev troops do not meet on their way with the dnieper riverwhich in the neighboring Kherson region separates the Ukrainian forces from the Russian ones.

Currently the ukrainian army can attack anywhere in the Crimea and “reach the enemy at absolutely any point (of the peninsula)“said the head of the Ukrainian Military Intelligence, Kirilo Budanovquoted by the official agency Ukrinform.

Ukraine says arrival of F-16 fighters is key

The Ukrainian authorities say that their troops would advance faster and suffer fewer casualties if it were not for Russian air superiority, which they hope to neutralize with the arrival of US F-16 fighterswhose first units would arrive in the country at the end of the year or the beginning of the next.

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In his traditional evening message the population, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskysaid this Saturday that the main task of the country’s diplomats is to expand the training missions of pilots abroad and that of the military, speed up the conditioning of infrastructures.

“And the task of all together is to bring as close as possible to the moment when the F-16 help us keep the russian terrorists away”, stressed the president.

The spokesman of the Ukrainian Air Force, Yuri Ignataffirmed today that in addition to the F-16 planes, it is necessary to equip them with adequate weapons.

“It is necessary not only to train the pilots, but also to provide Ukraine with all kinds of weapons for this plane – missiles, bombs, ammunition – because, in addition to planes, tools are needed to get rid of Russian scrap”, Ignat said in the national informative telethon.

Russia attacks airfield

He Ministry of Defense of Russia reported today for its part that it attacked last night with long-range and high-precision missiles launched from airplanes a military airfield near the town of pinchukiabout 60 kilometers south of kyiv.

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“All goals were achieved”, affirmed the spokesman for that portfolio, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkoby offering the daily report of war.

The military indicated last day that Russian troops repelled a total of 21 Ukrainian attacks on all fronts, eleven of them in Kupianskthe same one where the day before they reported that they had improved their positions on the front line.

According to Konashenkov, the attacks in that sector, where the Russian troops had made some progress, were repelled with the use of aviation, artillery and flamethrowers.

Source: Elcomercio

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