White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Kyiv's forces have achieved success against Russian defenses.
Ukraine has made gradual advances in the southern sector of the front, according to the U.S., as a map shows the latest state of play in Kyiv's three-month-old counteroffensive against Russia.
"They have achieved some success against the second line of Russian defenses," he said, describing the fortifications that Moscow's troops had dug before Ukraine started its push to recapture Russian-occupied territory around June 4. This chimes with an assessment and map by the Institute for the Study of War think tank which said Ukraine had"made some advances" in its push in the western Zaporizhzhia Oblast, as well as near northwest of Klishchiivka, located around five miles southwest of Bakhmut in the Donetsk Oblast.
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