Ukraine Advances Deeper Into Areas Held By Russia (original) (raw)

Europe|Ukraine advances deeper into areas that were held by Russia.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/20/world/europe/ukraine-bilohorivka-russia.html

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The Ukrainian military has not declared victory yet in Bilohorivka, given that control over towns has proved tenuous in the past. Reclaiming it would signal that Russia no longer has full control of the Luhansk region.

Civilians watched from a street corner in Bakhmut as Ukrainian military vehicles headed on Monday in the direction of the front line in the Donbas region.Credit...Tyler Hicks/The New York Times

Sept. 20, 2022

Ukrainian forces have battled their way back into territory in eastern Ukraine, officials said on Tuesday, reclaiming areas lost under months of relentless fire of Russian artillery. It is part of a remarkable turnaround from June, when the Ukrainian Army was nearly out of ammunition and struggled to slow the Russian assault.

A Ukrainian official said on Tuesday that Ukrainian forces had retaken Bilohorivka, a coal mining village on the banks of the Siversky Donets River that in May was the scene of one of the deadliest engagements of the war for Russian forces.

The Ukrainian military was more cautious in declaring victory in Bilohorivka, given that control over towns and villages has proved tenuous in the past. But while only a small village, it would be a potent signal that Russia no longer has full control of the Luhansk region, which along with Donetsk makes up Donbas, the main stated targets of the Kremlin’s war effort.

“Our defenders have squeezed the invaders out and are in full control of the town,” Serhiy Haidai, the Ukrainian military governor of the Luhansk region, said, though he noted that it was still under artillery fire and had largely been razed by the Russians.

“There are several towns like this in Luhansk Province,” he said.

He had said in earlier comments that there would be “a hard fight for every centimeter of Luhansk land.”

In the neighboring region of Donetsk, several Russian war bloggers reported that Ukrainian forces were attacking the strategically important city of Lyman, which also fell to the Russians in May, from two directions.

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