A new map highlights how much ground Russian forces have lost as they weather a string of setbacks on the battlefield in parts of Ukraine.
Ukrainian forces embarked on a major counteroffensive against Russia in recent days and appear to have successfully expelled Russian forces from significant areas of land, according to a map released by Oleksii Reznikov, the minister of defense of Ukraine.
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“#UAarmy’s autumn offensive, day by day. While the ‘russian parliament’ is intoxicated from the futile attempts at annexation, our soldiers continue moving forward. This is the best answer to any and all ‘referenda,’ ‘decrees,’ ‘treaties,’ and pathetic speeches,” Reznikov tweeted.
#UAarmy’s autumn offensive, day by day. While the “russian parliament” is intoxicated from the futile attempts at annexation, our soldiers continue moving forward.
This is the best answer to any and all “referenda”, “decrees”, “treaties” and pathetic speeches. pic.twitter.com/qLCBu0Vdns— Oleksii Reznikov (@oleksiireznikov) October 5, 2022
Another map circulating social media compiled from drawings from Russian media source Rybar showed similar battlefield setbacks for Russia.
“Russian media Rybar’s latest map shows how dire the situation is in northern Kherson for Russia. These maps are 4 hours apart,” explained Kyle Glen, an investigator at the Centre for Information Resilience, a nonprofit group aimed at countering disinformation.
Russian media Rybar’s latest map shows how dire the situation is in northern Kherson for Russia. These maps are 4 hours apart. pic.twitter.com/d8ZrxOdLZS
— Kyle Glen (@KyleJGlen) October 4, 2022
During a video address Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hailed the country’s recent military successes against the Russian invaders.
“The Ukrainian army is advancing in quite a rapid and powerful manner in the south of the country within the context of the current defence operation,” Zelensky said, according to Reuters. “This week alone, since the Russian pseudo-referendum, dozens of population centres have been liberated.”
Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an agreement to annex four regions in eastern Ukraine, including the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson. He signed the annexation into law early Wednesday morning. However, shortly after, the Kremlin was forced to pull back from the eastern city of Lyman, which is fixated in the Donetsk region.
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Putin sent much of the West into a frenzy after he vowed to defend the “territorial integrity of our Motherland” by “all the means at our disposal,” remarks that were widely interpreted as a possible nuclear threat.
Over the weekend, retired Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster speculated that Russia may be on the “precipice of, really, the collapse of the Russian army in Ukraine.”
