The General Staff of Ukraine reports on successes in the Kharkiv region.
"In the area of Kharkiv, the enemy moved to the defense after an unsuccessful attempt to encircle the city. Having failed in the Izyum direction, the enemy moved to the defense and is currently conducting deterrent actions and transferring its forces to the Luhansk direction. As a result of our active actions to liberate the occupied territories in the Kherson and Melitopol regions, the enemy has moved to the defense and is currently conducting deterrent actions," said General Oleksii Gromov, deputy chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Gromov added that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are launching a counteroffensive.
"We are succeeding in the Kharkiv direction, where we are gradually pushing back the enemy and liberating our settlements," Oleksiy Gromov said.
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