The Ukrainian army sacked Urozhaynoye and made great strides in the Robotino region. This was written by the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) in a report dated August 16.
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The material says that on August 16, the Armed Forces of Ukraine extended the counteroffensive in at least three sectors of the front, Ukrainian equipment can move freely in this area due to the clearing of minefields by Ukrainian forces.
Ukrainian troops are successfully advancing south of Harvest. This was announced on August 17 by the speaker of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Andrey Kovalev.
According to him, the Defense Forces continue to conduct an offensive operation in the Melitopol and Berdyansk directions.
In the direction south of Urozhaynoye they were successful, they are gaining a foothold on the achieved lines, he said.
The fact that Ukraine is stepping up the counteroffensive by introducing into battle one of the large units that were in reserve – the 82nd brigade of the DShU, wrote Forbes.
The number of brigade – two thousand fighters. Armed with armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles Marder and Stryker, as well as Challenger 2 tanks.
The brigade entered the battle in the Melitopol direction.
The build-up of airborne troops around Robotinoe could lead to early success for the Kyiv forces, Forbes journalists predict.
On the night of August 17, some Ukrainian military correspondents reported that the Russian occupation troops had been driven out by the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the village of Robotino.
The Ukrainian General Staff has not yet confirmed this information.
On other sectors of the front, the news is not so optimistic. Ukraine has transferred reserves to the Liman-Kupyansk direction, where the Russian army is conducting a large-scale offensive, said Sergei Cherevaty, a representative of the Eastern Group of Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Immediate, clear orders were committed to building a defense in depth. Our firing positions have been tightened, certain methodological recommendations have been provided, and reserves have been overturned. Therefore, this made it impossible for the enemy to move,” Cherevaty said on the air of the telethon.
Earlier, the American Institute for the Study of War wrote about the advance of the Russian army near Kupyansk. In particular, ISW reported on the presence of geolocation footage confirming some successes of the occupiers in the Kupyansk direction.
Geolocation footage released on August 13 shows Russian troops advancing in the area of Orlyanka (22km east of Kupyansk) and Nikolayevka (24km east of Kupyansk).
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