ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine - In the south, Ukrainian soldiers are fighting on an unforgiving landscape, table-flat farmland with little cover for troops trying to advance.
In fierce battles along the front line this past week, Ukraine’s counteroffensive is taking shape, presenting a major pivot in the war. “Counteroffensive and defensive actions are being taken in Ukraine,” he said, at a news conference in Kyiv, Ukraine.The multipronged assault, concentrated along the front in the south and the east, is a test run of Ukraine’s new arsenal of Western tanks and armoured vehicles as well as tens of thousands of newly mobilised soldiers who trained in Europe for months in preparation for the fighting.
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