The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue their counter-offensive in the south of the country, Ukraine has regained control over 3,000 square kilometers of territory, more than Russia has seized since April, the American Institute for the Study of War calculated. By the evening of September 11, at least 40 settlements of the Kharkiv region were liberated. Now the Ukrainian military is almost on the border with Russia.
Polish military analyst Konrad Muzyka believes that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have occupied almost the entire Kharkiv region or will do so in the near future. The recorded volume of losses of the RF Armed Forces in equipment practically excludes the possibility of organizing a Russian offensive in this direction in the medium term. Ukrainian troops, on the contrary, can develop successes in the Lugansk region.
Meanwhile, there have been reports of power and water outages in several regions of Ukraine following Russian strikes on critical infrastructure. Previously, a video of missile launches from ships, presumably located near the Crimea, was published.
Zelensky said that “Kharkov and Donetsk regions are completely de-energized, partially Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, Sumy. “No military installations, only the goal is to leave people without light and heat,” the President of Ukraine wrote.
Belgorod is also partially de-energized . According to the mayor of the city, this is due to a failure at the Yuzhnaya substation, on Thursday there was a “major accident”. Why the accident was on Thursday, and the light went out on Sunday, the mayor did not explain. Power engineers promise to restore supply within an hour.
In the afternoon, the head of the Kharkiv OVA Oleg Sinegubov, on the air of the Dumka channel, announced that a significant part of the Chuguevsky, Kupyansky and Balakleyevsky districts had been liberated. “These settlements already number in the dozens. At the moment, we can talk about about 40, although in fact there are much more of them, we simply cannot voice this figure, taking into account the interests of the military operation,” Sinegubov said.
Toward evening , it became known about the liberation of the Goptovka border checkpoint on the Ukrainian-Russian border in the Dergachev district of the Kharkiv region. Also, a video appeared on Ukrainian channels confirming the presence of Ukrainian military personnel in Volchansk. There is unconfirmed information about the liberation of the villages of Kazachya Lopan and Tokarevka , three kilometers from the border
The advancement of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the region was also confirmed by the Russian Ministry of Defense, which showed in a daily report a map on which the entire Kharkiv region, with the exception of the territory east of the Oskol River, is under the control of the Ukrainian military.
Read more about the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv direction – online The Insider.