Ukraine’s armed forces launched a counterattack in the eastern Kharkiv region and unexpectedly attacked a group of Russian troops near the town of Balaklya on Tuesday morning, the BBC’s Russian newsroom reported. According to her, the Ukrainian counterattack near Kharkiv is written in some Ukrainian and pro-Russian media channels on the social network Telegram, and it was also confirmed by Western experts.
Members of a Ukrainian army unit made up of foreign volunteers in northern Donetsk | Photo: Serhii Nuzhnenko | Source: Reuters
The BBC reports that Russian forces are rapidly retreating beyond the northern Donets River, according to numerous, albeit unofficial, reports. In addition, pro-Russian channels on the Telegram platform are filled with reports that the Ukrainian army has regained control of the village of Verbivka near Balaklya, where a large arsenal of the Russian army is located.
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Other sources claim that the Ukrainians had already taken control of the strategically important Balaklya region, which had approximately 27,000 inhabitants before the war. Russian forces are moving through Balaklia towards Slovyansk or Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region. There is also a road to the Kopzhansk railway station, through which, according to the BBC, most of the military shipments from Russia are transported.
Confusion in the Russian army
“If the Ukrainians really manage to surprise the Kharkiv region with their operations, it shows just how chaotic the Russian army is,” said Phillips O’Brien, who lectures in strategic studies at St Scotland’s University. Andrews. In his opinion, the Ukrainian counterattack was expected.
Adviser to the Ukrainian Presidential Office Serhiy Leshchenko wrote on Twitter on Tuesday, according to Reuters, that President Volodymyr Zelensky will announce “good news” about the Ukrainian counter-attack in the Kharkiv region this evening. However, the tweet was later deleted.
In addition, Ukrainian forces launch a counterattack in the Kherson region in southern Ukraine. Adviser to the Head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, Mikhailo Podolyak, on Monday called on the residents of the region and Crimea to prepare for the restoration of the territory controlled by Russia by Ukrainian forces.
