After a brilliant onslaught, Ukraine drove Russian forces back across the border


After retaking dozens of villages and important cities in a dramatic counterattack that gave Putin’s forces yet another humiliating setback, Ukraine has driven Russian soldiers back over the border.

Videos that surfaced Sunday afternoon and Monday morning purported to show Kyiv’s soldiers tearing down the Russian flag and replacing it with their own at a border crossing with that country in Strilecha, which is north of Kharkiv.

It follows similar scenes that occurred throughout the entire Kharkiv region over the weekend as Ukrainian troops stormed east out of the city, busting through Russian lines and liberating a swath of land twice the size of Greater London, including a number of crucial transportation and logistics hubs supporting Putin’s forces in the Donbas.

According to Petro Kuzyk, a commander whose forces took part in the onslaught, the Russians ran so quickly that dinners were still on the tables when his men arrived.

We anticipated success, but we didn’t anticipate such cowardly behaviour, the man remarked. They gave up their tanks and other equipment, even grabbing bicycles to flee.

Our operation was made simpler by the fact that the Russian army was utterly destroyed; they ran away like Olympic sprinters.

It is only the latest defeat on the battlefield for Putin’s battered troops, which last night apparently in revenge attacked power plants and water delivery infrastructure in the Kharkiv area. There were three fatalities.

The strikes, according to President Zelensky’s advisor Mykhailo Podolyak, were a “cowardly reaction to the departure of [Russia’s] own troops from the battlefield.”

President Zelensky said that Russia will never break the Ukrainian people’s spirit while denouncing what he termed “terrorist” attacks meant to rob citizens of heat and light.

On social media, he added, “Cold, hunger, darkness, and thirst – for us not as terrible and dangerous as your “friendship and fraternity.” “History will arrange everything,” And we shall have water, electricity, gas, and be without you!

The southern military command’s spokeswoman, Nataliya Humenyuk, said this morning that some Russian forces were seeking to negotiate their surrender while a second counterattack near the city of Kherson was making solid headway.

The troops, according to Humenyuk, are among those stuck on the west side of the Dnipro River. Since Ukraine destroyed all of the major crossing sites with US HIMARS rockets, they had no way to flee.

According to a report released by British intelligence on Monday morning, Russia “has likely ordered the departure of its forces from the whole of seized Kharkiv [area] in response to Ukrainian advances.”

Although there are still small pockets of resistance in this area, Ukraine has reclaimed an area at least twice the size of Greater London since Wednesday.

Russia is probably having trouble getting enough reserves over the Dnipro River to the front line in the south, close to Kherson.

‘An makeshift floating bridge Russia began more than two weeks ago is still unfinished; it is likely that Ukrainian long-range artillery is already striking Dnipro crossings so regularly that Russia is unable to replace destroyed road bridges.

The quick Ukrainian victories have a big impact on Russia’s entire operational strategy. Most likely, the bulk of the military in Ukraine is being obliged to prioritise defensive emergency measures.

It is probable that the already low level of confidence that deployed soldiers have in Russia’s top military leadership will continue to decline.

The Russian defence ministry has made an effort to characterise the loss as a’regrouping’ of forces from the adjacent towns of Donetsk and Balakliya to “increase operations in the region.”

However, the usual pro-Russian military bloggers and Kremlin friends responded angrily, and Ramzan Kadyrov of Chechnya vowed to make the position clear to military leaders and the government.

They have made errors, but I believe they will learn from them, Kadyrov added.

“I will be obliged to contact the leadership of the Defense Ministry and the leadership of the nation to explain the true situation on the ground if they don’t make adjustments in the plan of executing the special military operation in the next day or two.”

Analysts have lauded the stunning Kharkiv counter-attack as one of the greatest counter-offensives in recent history, one that will be studied for years to come.

It puts soldiers fending off a second Ukrainian counterattack in the south under increased strain, exposes Vladimir Putin to the possibility of complete loss in Ukraine, and puts Russia’s forces on the whole eastern front at danger of being defeated.

Zelensky informed Putin during the blackouts that “even through the impenetrable darkness Ukraine and the civilised world can saw these terrorist deeds.”

“Deliberate and cynical missile assaults on essential infrastructure for the general public. Not one single military installation.

Do you still believe that we are a single people? Do you really believe you can scare us, overwhelm us, or prod us into action? Really, do you not comprehend anything?

You don’t know who we are, do you? What do we serve? What are we discussing? Examine my lips: Gas-less or without you? lacking you.

Russia has “tried to destroy important civilian infrastructure” with missile attacks.

According to Russian authorities, the assaults on Kharkovskaya and Zmievskaya, the two biggest thermal power facilities in eastern and central Ukraine, resulted in a shortage of producing capacity.

The strike was intended to injure people since the facilities supply central heating to Ukrainian houses.

The pro-war Rybar station said that “the failure of the electricity grid has extended to the networks of the Kharkiv, Sumy, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, and Odessa areas.”

“It also hit the Kyiv region and the country’s capital, as well as the Donetsk territories held by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”

Rybar’s pro-war Telegram channel stated that electric trains had halted “nearly all across the nation” and that many trolleybuses in Poltava had caught fire in the middle of the street. This allegation mirrored calls from other hardliners for even more ferocious strikes.

In response to reports that scared Russian soldiers have been abandoning tanks, guns, and supplies, Ukrainian forces have launched a counteroffensive that has brought their troops within 30 kilometres of the border.

This action sends a clear message to hotheads who make obnoxious comments in the face of the Armed Forces of Ukraine’s dominance in the Kharkiv area.

Therefore, the effect on the enemy’s vital infrastructure must persist.

And not only at thermal power plants and substations, but also at Dnieper crossings,

In the greatest loss for Moscow’s troops since being driven from the outskirts of Kyiv in March, hundreds of Russian soldiers abandoned Izium city, which served as a supply base for Putin’s forces, leaving behind weapons and equipment.

Margarita Simonyan, a Putin supporter, said on Facebook: “What happened to your vitality and brightness, neighbours?

In response to the devastating setback in the Kharkiv area, Russian state TV propagandists began a game of finger-pointing on the war’s failure.

‘Individuals who persuaded President Putin that the special operation would be rapid and successful [and] we won’t attack the civilian population, we’ll come in, and our National Guard… will bring things to order — these people truly set us all up,’ former MP Boris Nadezhdin openly told viewers.


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