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The Ukrainian army claims to have taken over 30 localities, including the important town of Balaklia, in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, on Friday, September 9. France Télévisions reporters were able to meet artillery units in the Donbass, which are also trying to retake villages that have fallen into Russian hands.
In Donetsk Oblast (Ukraine), it’s an early morning full of optimism for a 37-year-old Chechen, a volunteer, who is fighting to liberate the black lands of Donbass. “Here too, we are moving forward. We will try to regain control of the city of Pisky (Ukraine) from the Russians. We should get her today or tomorrow“, he explains. He finds his comrades hiding in a gutted house, on the front line. The Russian positions are just opposite, behind a small lake.
To orient themselves, the soldiers use a drone. While a Ukrainian counter-offensive is underway towards Kherson and in the Kharkiv region, here too, in the Donbassthe bombardments are raging. The Ukrainian forces are trying to take advantage of the Russian disorganization to target and reach several positions. The soldier at the head of the battalion is surprising: russehe fought in Chechnya for the army of Vladimir Putin. “I was present during the war in Chechnya, and I realized that Putin was only thinking about money“, he explains.