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US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin stated that the Ukrainian military had achi...

Counteroffensive. Pentagon head stated that the successes of the Armed Forces in Kharkiv and Kherson region are "very encouraging"

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin stated that the Ukrainian military had achieved some success during a counter -offensive in Kharkiv and Kherson regions. He stated this during Prague on Friday, September 9, Reuters reports. "Now we see success in the Kherson region, we see some success in Kharkiv, and it gives very, very encouraging," Austin said.

Video on the evening of September 8, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that since September 1, the Armed Forces had been released from Russian invaders more than 1 thousand square kilometers of Ukraine and dozens of settlements. The Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhny confirmed this. "It is very difficult for us, but we move forward," he said on September 9.

Since the beginning of the month of the Armed Forces, they went on a counter -offensive in the Kherson, Kharkiv and partly Donetsk directions. ISW reported that Ukrainian defenders used tactical suddenness to repel approximately 400 square meters in September 7-7. km of the territory of Ukraine. The counterattack of Ukrainian forces in the area of ​​Izum and Balakliya is described as "local but very effective.