Ukraine’s deployment of Leopard and Challenger tanks from Western allies could signify a new and critical phase in the war has begun
military said on Monday that it believed the Ukrainian counteroffensive was under way, with sources since claiming to have inflicted heavy defeats on the advancing Ukrainian forces. The Russian embassy in Washington declared on Wednesday that eight Leopard tanks had been “annihilated” by Russian fire, with the Ministry of Defence posting a grainy video of a vehicle being destroyed by a helicopter-fired missile.
The ISW assessed that Ukrainian troops had made gains this week on the flanks of the city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, which Russian forces captured in May after a nine-month siege. On Wednesday, Ukrainian troops launched what the institute called “a limited but still significant attack” in the Zaporizhzhia region that Russia appeared to have defended “in a doctrinally sound manner,” with Russian troops pushing back to their original positions by Thursday.
The disaster – which Russia claims was caused by a Ukrainian missile strike on the dam – has flooded entire villages, displacing thousands of people and ruining tens of thousands of hectares of rich farmland. At least 13 people have died as a result of the dam burst, which unleashed the 18 million cubic metres of water contained in the Kakhovka Reservoir. Previously, the reservoir helped irrigate much of southern Ukraine and provided cooling water to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.
Russia has repeatedly denied responsibility for well-documented war crimes committed by its forces during the invasion, including last year’s massacre of civilians in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, as well as the bombing of a theatre where hundreds of people had taken shelter during the siege of the Azov Sea port of Mariupol.
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