Some context: Power has been restored in the Dnipropetrovsk region and 80% of the electricity and water supply is restored in Kharkiv region, local officials said Monday. “The rest of the servicemen have an extremely low morale and psychological state, they massively refuse to return to the combat zone,” it added.ĬNN cannot independently verify the Ukrainian accounts. Russia’s 810th Separate Brigade of Marines is permanently based in Sevastopol, part of the Black Sea Fleet. Meanwhile, Russian forces “suffered significant losses” in manpower, including the 810th Separate Brigade of Marines losing almost 85% of its personnel, as part of Ukraine’s actions in the Kherson direction, the General Staff statement said. In a separate statement Monday, Serhiy Hayday, Head of Luhansk’s regional military administration said: “The enemy has not organized any measures for evacuation - everyone escapes on their own”. Svatove has been an important hub on Russian resupply routes to the front lines further south - along the borders of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. “In the Luhansk region, the Russian military and their families left the town of Svatove, only the soldiers of the so-called ‘people's militia’ from among the local residents remained,” the statement said. Villages within five kilometers of the border were raising the Ukrainian flag. Over the weekend, the Russian retreat continued from border areas that had been occupied since March. The last week has seen Ukrainian forces roll through lines of Russian defenses and recapture more than 3,000 square kilometers of territory.
The Ukrainian military’s General Staff said in a statement Monday “the liberation of settlements from the Russian invaders in the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions continues,” stating Russian forces were dislodged from more than 20 settlements in the past day alone. “Lord, save the Russian soldiers from blows from the front and even more from blows in the back.”ĬNN's Tim Lister and Darya Tarasova contributed reporting.Ī Ukrainian service member stands on a Russian 2S19 Msta-S self-propelled howitzer captured during a counteroffensive operation in Kharkiv on Monday. Abandoned by the command, not knowing the way, they walked at random,” the post said.
“The soldiers were on foot with one machine gun and a sack. They reposted an equally scathing account by the Partizan Telegram channel from the front lines. Kholmogorov, a blogger and staunch advocate of Russian President Vladimir Putin, also joined the chorus of criticism leveled at Moscow. Kadyrov added that he would be contacting senior officials at the Defense Ministry to spell out his message. Some background: Russia's recent collapse in the northeastern region of Kharkiv has been met with stinging criticism from Kremlin loyalists - and prompted the question of how Moscow will respond to its failure.Ĭhechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who has supplied thousands of fighters to the offensive, said "mistakes were made," in a Telegram post on Sunday. “Therefore, in order to preserve our personnel, I think it was decided to withdraw, regroup," he added.ĬNN cannot independently verify Ganchev's claims. Ganchev echoed other Russian officials in attempting to present Moscow's retreat as a decision to regroup further from the front line. "Talking about the forces that have been transferred for the counteroffensive of the Ukrainian army, it outnumbered our troops by about eight times, no less,” Vitaly Ganchev, the most senior Russian backed official in the northeastern Kharkiv region, told Russia 24 on Monday, according to Russian state news agency RIA Novosti. A top Russian-backed official has claimed the Ukrainian army outnumbered Russian and pro-Russian forces by eight times in the last week, following Kyiv's sweeping offensive in the east.
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