Since the beginning of September, Ukraine has been continuing the counterattack

The Ukrainian city of Balaklia of the Kharkiv region was controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. On Thursday, September 8, said the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. Already today this was confirmed by the head of the control of the Russian Federation of the Military-Civil Administration of the Kharkov region Vitaly Gonchar.

According to Ukraine, the Armed Forces of Ukraine quickly moves towards the enemy. Russia does not comment on this, but there is information about the evacuation of civilians. "Paper" says that it is known about the counterattack of Ukraine by September 9th.

🟢 Vladimir Zelensky published a video in which the Ukrainian military announced that they took control of Balakliy. “Everything is in place. The flag of Ukraine in a free Ukrainian city under a free Ukrainian sky! ” - wrote Zelensky.

Vitaly Gonchar, the head of the controlled Russian Federation of the Kharkov Region, confirmed that the Russian troops lost control of the Balaklai: “A difficult humanitarian situation [in Balakley] ... There are fierce battles. Balaklia by us, in fact, is not controlled. There are attempts to knock out Ukrainian forces, but there are fierce battles and our troops restrained on the approaches, ”said Gonchar.

🟢 The APU General Staff says that the Ukrainian military returned more than 20 settlements in the Kharkov direction. According to the deputy head of the main operational department of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexei Gromov, the Ukrainian military advanced more than 700 square kilometers of the territory and advanced 50 kilometers into the enemy’s defense, the publication “Politics of the country” reports .

🟢 The Russian Ministry of Defense did not comment on the situation in the Balakley and the Ukrainian side of the counterattack in its daily report. However, the department published a video on which the transfer of troops to the Kharkov direction is visible.

According to the Ministry of Defense, in the Kharkov region, Russian troops defeated four control points of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, destroyed three warehouses with weapons and shot down several military drones.

🟢 Press Secretary of Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov also did not comment on the situation around Balaklia. “As for the course of a special military operation, this is to my colleague Konashenkova (official representative of the Ministry of Defense),” Peskov “Interfax” reports .

🟢 The head of the VGA of the Kharkov region Vitaly Gonchar reported that in the Kharkov region the evacuation of civilians began. People are taken out of raisins, Kupyansk and Great Burluk, writes TASS.

🟢 The US Institute for the Study of the United States confirms the successes of Ukraine on the Kharkov-Izum line. According to them, in the next day, Ukraine can take another city - Kupyansk.