Ukraine claims to have liberated the town of Urozhaine, in the southern Donetsk region. With this achievement, he makes his way to Berdiansk and Mariupol, cities located in front of the Azov Sea, a strategic area for the Russian Army.
Sometimes you lose and sometimes you win, that is the situation on the ground of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, which fails to contain the advance of the Russian forces on certain fronts but manages to liberate occupied territories on others.
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At the moment the battle is concentrated in the northeast and east of the country: in Kupiansk, Liman and Bakhmut.
However, Ukraine claims to have liberated the town of Urozhaine, in the southern Donetsk region. With this achievement, he makes his way to Berdiansk and Mariupol, cities located in front of the Azov Sea, a strategic area for the Russian Army.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry admits that the counteroffensive is progressing more slowly than desired and that this is due to Russia’s vast minefields and defensive lines.
Likewise, kyiv reported that during a night attack, Russian drones hit grain warehouses in the port of Reni, in the province of Odessa. However, this did not stop the first Ukrainian grain cargo ship to leave the port of Odessa on Wednesday for a new shipping route through the Bosphorus Strait.
An alternative that the Government of Ukraine is testing to avoid the current crisis of the grain export agreement with Russia.
“The Hong Kong-flagged container ship Joseph Schulte has left the port of Odessa and is sailing through the temporary corridor,” the Ministry of Reconstruction reported, according to the Ukrinform agency.
Moscow has intensified attacks in the Black Sea region since it refused last month to extend the deal, including attacks near the maritime border of NATO member Romania.
additional sources • EFE Agency