Ukrainian forces push forward in counter-offensive, video shows soldiers capturing Russian trenches on souther
The Ukrainian Offensive Guard clears the trenches of the Russian occupiers during the counteroffensive in southern Ukraine (Photo:Screenshot of the video from МВС/Telegram)
Ukraine’s Interior Ministry has released a video showing Offensive Guard troops clearing trenches of Russian invasion forces during the Ukrainian army’s advance in the south.
The video, posted on the Ministry's Telegram channel on Sept. 3, shows soldiers storming the enemy's trenches and clearing them, including through the use of grenades.
The combat action is also taking place in a heavily mined area.
"Under heavy enemy fire and in mined terrain, our assault groups continue to move forward gradually, pushing the invaders out of Ukrainian land," commented National Guard commander Oleksandr Pivnenko.
More than 20,000 volunteers have applied to join the assault brigades of the National Guard. Nine brigades have been formed.
They are already performing combat missions at the front.
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U.S. newspaper the New York Times earlier reported that a new phase of Ukraine's counter-offensive has begun, with its main impact in the southeast, where Ukrainian soldiers are gradually advancing through minefields and under attack by Russian aircraft.
U.S. newspaper the Wall Street Journal quoted an unnamed U.S. official as saying that Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi, commenting on criticism of the "slow pace" of the Ukrainian counter-offensive, had told U.S. officials that Ukrainian forces were on the verge of a breakthrough.
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry officially confirmed the liberation of the village of Robotyne, in Zaporizhzhya Oblast on Aug. 28, a few days after Ukrainian troops had entered the settlement.
Ukrainian forces are now moving further towards Novoprokopivka and Ocheretuvate, and have seen successes near Verbove, Ukraine’s military says.
In early September, the commander of the Tavria operational and strategic grouping of troops, Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had broken through the first line of Russian defense on the southern front.
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