During briefing on Thursday, September 8, Deputy Chief of the Main Operational Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksiy Gromov, said that the results were truly stunning.
"Since the beginning of the week, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in cooperation with units of the National Guard and other security forces, have been conducting active operations in certain directions. At present, military units have wedged themselves into the enemy's defense to a depth of up to 50 km. Filtration operations are ongoing in some settlements. In the course of active operations in the Kharkiv direction, more than 20 settlements were liberated. In the Kramatorsk direction, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine improved their tactical position and advanced to a depth of 2 kilometers. In the course of offensive operations in the Sloviansk direction, units of the 103rd separate territorial defense brigade, together with units of the 15th regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine, advanced up to three kilometers deep and liberated the settlement of Ozerne," Hromov said.
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At the same time, the General Staff did not give the specific names of the settlements, but if follow the reports from the so-called russian "war correspondents", as well as the available photos and videos from the warriors of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Defense Forces of Ukraine carried out an operational encirclement of the city of Balaklia, cut the M03 highway in the area of the settlement Volokhiv Yar and H-26 in the Shevchenko district.
According to rather limited and unverified information, further successful actions are being developed in the direction of Kupyansk, which is an important transport hub for the entire so-called Izyum Group of Russian troops.
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