ISW: Ukrainian forces launch counteroffensive operations in multiple fronts.

Ukrainian forces engaged in counteroffensive operations in several areas of the front line on June 10, the Institute for the Study of War said[1] in their latest assessment. Ukrainian activity was reported in Luhansk Oblast near Bilohorivka, located some 88 kilometres northwest from the center of Russian-occupied Luhansk. Colonel Serhii Cherevaty, spokesperson for the Ukrainian Eastern Group of Forces, confirmed[2] that Ukrainian troops made significant advances in unspecified locations along the Bakhmut front, progressing up to 1,400 meters.

Russian military bloggers also documented Ukrainian advances northwest and northeast of Bakhmut. The ISW said that the Russian Ministry of Defense and other sources claimed that Ukrainian forces conducted localized attacks in the Donetsk-Zaporizhzhia Oblast border area, specifically in the Velyka Novosilka region. Additionally, eolocated footage posted on June 10 revealed Ukrainian forces in western Zaporizhzhia Oblast achieving territorial gains during counterattacks southwest and southeast of Orikhiv.

However, Russian military bloggers continued to assert that Russian forces in the area successfully repelled Ukrainian attempts to advance.

Zelensky says counteroffensive ongoing in Ukraine "From my point of view, counteroffensive defensive actions are taking place in Ukraine," President Volodymyr Zelensky said during a press conference following a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Kyiv on June 10.

Development manager, Canadian correspondent

Olena Goncharova is a development manager and Canadian correspondent for the Kyiv Independent. She first joined the Kyiv Post, Ukraine's oldest English-language newspaper, as a staff writer in January 2012 and became the newspaper's Canadian correspondent in June 2018.

She is based in Edmonton, Alberta. Olena has a master's degree in publishing and editing from the Institute of Journalism in Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. Olena was a 2016 Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellow who worked for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for six months.

The program is administered by the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia.

References

1. ^ said (www.understandingwar.org)
2. ^ confirmed (kyivindependent.com)
3. ^ Zelensky says counteroffensive ongoing in Ukraine"From my point of view, counteroffensive defensive actions are taking place in Ukraine," President Volodymyr Zelensky said during a press conference following a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Kyiv on June 10. (kyivindependent.com)