Ukrainian army says chain of successes, Russia bombs reconquered areas

What there is to know

Ukraine announced, Monday, September 12, new military successes. She claims to have reached the Russian border and taken over the equivalent of seven times the area of ​​kyiv in one month from the Russian army. The latter responded by bombarding certain reconquered areas. Follow our live.

6,000 km2 of territory liberated in the east and south. In total, “Since the beginning of September, our soldiers have already liberated 6,000 km2 of Ukrainian territory in the east and south, and we are continuing to advance”, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday evening in an online video. kyiv on Sunday claimed only 3,000 km2 “liberated”.

The United States remains cautious. “It’s too early to say exactly where all this will take us.stormed the head of American diplomacy, Antony Blinken, during a visit to Mexico City. We are in the early days (of the counter-offensive, editor’s note) so I think it would not be good to predict exactly where all this will lead us”.

Russia bombs the liberated areas. Moscow said on Monday that it had bombed areas taken over by Ukraine not far from Kharkiv, in the Kupiansk and Izium sectors. The Ukrainian general staff for its part counted about forty Russian strikes during the day “on Ukrainian military and civilian installations”.

source site-25