General Staff: Ukraine repels Russian offensive in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
Ukraine has repelled a Russian offensive near the village of Robotyne in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, about 20 kilometers south of Orikhiv, the General Staff said[1] in its evening briefing on Aug.
5. According to the report, Russia is focusing its main efforts on preventing Ukraine from advancing further as the counteroffensive approaches its two-month mark. Russian forces also attempted to recapture the positions in the Staromaiorske area that Ukraine had liberated in the southern part of Donetsk Oblast, the General Staff said.
Ukraine's military announced[2] the liberation of the village of Staromaiorske on July 27. Further north, the General Staff said a Russian offensive in the Lyman direction was also repelled. The report contradicts the Russian Defense Ministry's Aug.
5 statement that its forces recaptured the village of Novoselivske in Luhansk Oblast. The village, which sits near the Kharkiv Oblast border, was liberated by Ukrainian forces in December 2022, according[3] to the Luhansk Oblast Military Administration.
Asami Terajima
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Asami Terajima is a reporter at the Kyiv Independent. She previously worked as a business reporter for the Kyiv Post focusing on international trade, infrastructure, investment and energy.
Originally from Japan, Terajima moved to Ukraine during childhood and completed her bachelor's degree in Business Administration at William Woods University in Missouri, U.S.A.
She is the winner of the 2023 George Weidenfeld Prize, awarded for "excellent investigative and courageous research activities" as part of Germany's prestigious Axel Springer Prize.