Ukraine’s military said its troops advanced along the southern front line against entrenched Russian defenses as American battle tanks arrived to reinforce the four-month counteroffensive.
Kiev’s forces advanced near the village of Verbove in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, and troops advanced toward the occupied Russian strongholds of Tokmak and Melitopol further south, according to the Ukrainian General Staff. He Institute for the Study of War He called it a “tactical advance,” although he said the situation is fluid.