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This might make locals in Ukraine hopeful and experts to think about the outcome of the Ukraine-Russia war. In war since February this year with Russia, Ukrainian forces claimed to have seized even more territory from Russia.
In a video message Ukraine president Volodymyr has said, “From the beginning of September until today, our warriors have already liberated more than 6,000 sq km of the territory of Ukraine – in the east and south”.
Zelensky claimed troops have now retaken more than 6,000 sq km from Russian control in September month, in the east and the south of the country.
Russia has admitted losing key cities in the north-eastern Kharkiv region, and is seen as a potential breakthrough in the war. Moscow describes its troop withdrawal from the region in recent days as a regrouping with the aim of focusing on the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said Ukrainian forces had made significant progress in their counter-offensive, but added that it was too early to predict the outcome of the war. “The Russians maintain very significant forces in Ukraine as well as equipment and arms and munitions. They continue to use it indiscriminately against not just the Ukrainian armed forces but civilians,” Blinken pointed.
Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24 and since then the two countries are in a state of war. Civillians international students of different countries left Ukraine in thousands in different countries.
Zelensky thanked several of Ukraine’s brigades involved in the counter-offensive, describing their fighters as true heroes. But he did not reveal which Ukrainian cities and villages had been liberated.
Russia’s military earlier had admitted that its troops had to leave the key cities of Balakliya, Izyum and Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region. Russia now controls only a small eastern part of the region.
