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While the Kiev counter-offensive seems to be taking shape in the conflict in Ukraine in recent days, the few inhabitants who have not deserted the town of Orikhiv, near the front, are seeing increasingly intense fighting.
Seven kilometers from the front line, military reinforcements continue to arrive on Saturday, June 10. In the other direction, we can see the ambulance ballet continuing. Orikhiv, in the Zaporizhia sector of Ukraine, is at the forefront of the ongoing offensive. It is from here that the Ukrainian units leave which try to break through the Russian lines of the southern front. In this regularly bombarded city, the few inhabitants who remain note the intensification of the fighting. They would be no more than 300, in a commune which had 14,000 inhabitants before the war.
Russian bombardment intensifies
No respite was observed in the evening. Two civilians died in these Russian strikes. At the beginning of the week, the bombings tore apart the last buildings where this trader works. “I am no longer afraid! I have confidence in our soldiers who advance to regain our lands“, she assures. President Volodymyr Zelensky recognizes for the first time actions of counter-offensive. However, he did not specify whether it was the major attack announced in recent weeks.