The Ukrainian armed forces said that most of the Russian losses were towards Donetsk and Kryvyi Rih.
It comes amid a Ukrainian counteroffensive in the country's south, as Kyiv's forces focus on the Kherson region and its capital with the same name, which was seized by Russia early in the war and is of significant strategic and political value.
In an interview with the independent news outlet Meduza, military analyst Rob Lee said it was not clear if Ukraine had the equipment or the soldiers with enough training to pull off the military offensive. Lee expected a"kind of grinding offensive" where Ukraine's forces take back towns"but it takes time" and"might require a lot of artillery."
"I think Ukraine wants to make the position of Russian forces west of the Dnieper unsustainable," he told the outlet,"Basically what they're trying to do is make it more costly for Russia to try and hold Kherson." This involved targeting bridges or"anything within HIMARS range," he said, referring to the U.S-supplied
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