Zelenskiy vows no let-up as Ukraine says troops cross key river in northeast

Reuters ^ | September 19, 2022 | Pavel Polityuk and Phil Stewart

[Timber Rattler]

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy vowed there would be no let-up in Ukraine's fight to regain its territory as Kyiv said its troops had crossed a major river, paving the way for an assault on Russia's occupation forces in the eastern Donbas region.

Reflecting the dramatic change in momentum since Ukrainian forces routed Russian troops earlier this month in the northeast, U.S. President Joe Biden offered his strongest prediction so far that the Ukraine would win the war.

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Crossing the Oskil River is another important milestone in Ukraine's counter-offensive in the northeastern Kharkiv region. The river flows south into the Siversky Donets, which snakes through the Donbas, the main focus of Russia's invasion.

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Further beyond lies Luhansk province, the base for Russia's separatist proxies since 2014 and fully in Russian hands since July after some of the war's bloodiest battles.

Ukrainian troops "have pushed across the Oskil. From yesterday, Ukraine controls the east bank", the Ukrainian Armed Forces wrote on Telegram late on Sunday.

Serhiy Gaidai, Ukrainian governor of Luhansk, wrote on Telegram: "Luhansk region is right next door. De-occupation is not far away."

[Timber Rattler]

More bad news for Comrade Putin...the Oskil River defense line has now been breached. Onward to Lysychansk!

[JonPreston]

Midterms +57 and counting

[BenLurkin]

[ScottinVA]

Take it to them, Ukes!

[Midwesterner53]

Very good news!!

[ScottinVA]

Apparently some of the kids in here haven’t seen the progress Ukrain has made in the Kharkiv Oblast. Poor them.

[CIB-173RDABN]

I have a feeling that Zelenskiy is not a student of military history.

[ScottinVA]

*Ukraine

[jacknhoo]

How many Ukrainians are left?

[PIF]

Actually there is nothing in left in Lysychansk worth fighting over. It is just a marker - it is really on to capturing the next 2 or 3 major Russian supply hubs, Sen’kove, Startobil’sk, Svatove.

[Kazan]

"But they have always been seeking the dissolution of our country – this is very true. It is unfortunate that at some point they decided to use Ukraine for these purposes. [...] This is what some US-led Western countries have always been seeking – to create an anti-Russia enclave and rock the boat, threaten Russia from this direction. In essence, our main goal is to prevent such developments.

...

In the course of this, we are seeing attempts to perpetrate terrorist attacks and damage our civilian infrastructure.

Indeed, we were quite restrained in our response, but that will not last forever. Recently, Russian Armed Forces delivered a couple of sensitive blows to that area. Let’s call them warning shots. If the situation continues like that, our response will be more impactful." --Russian President Vladimir Putin.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

(Kyiv) - Techno-dancing President Volodymyr Zelenskiy kicked off the quarterly ZEEPathon today. The President vowed there would be no let-up in Ukraine’s fight to regain its territory as Kyiv said its troops had crossed a major river, paving the way for an assault on Russia’s occupation forces in the eastern Donbas region.

[kiryandil]

Moscow is in danger now, I guess.

[pierrem15]

Ukrainian Russian bodies keep piling up and Ukraine Russia keeps losing more and more territory.

Fixed it for you.

[pierrem15]

I have a feeling that Zelenskiy is not a student of military history.

Apparently neither is Putin.

[rrrod]

I’d like to see this war over.

[rrrod]

What do midterms have to do with it?

[canuck_conservative]

of the thousands losing their lives

you didn't give a damn about "the thousands losing their lives" back in the spring and summer when Russia was bombing its way forward, in fact you were cheering on the attackers

but now that Russia is being pushed back, you're suddenly concerned about "the thousands losing their lives"

get lost Russian troll

you started this war, get used to it

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Moscow is not in danger, and never was even before the war. Nor was any other part of Russia in danger prior to this war. Russia is a nuclear nation, and for that reason alone, was not going to be invaded.

That's why Putin's transparent excuse that he had to invade Ukraine because Russia was threatened by NATO was ridiculous. NATO was never going to invade russia, and Putin knew it.