village had been liberated. the advances are relatively small, we re talking five kilometres, there are reports of heavy shelling. analysts are describing a full frontal assault towards the city of robert neave, which is further southeast of zaporizhzhia. so it is clear that ukraine is trying to make moves. there are unnamed sources, unnamed us officials who see this as the start of a major thrust. but ukraine, kyiv is trying to water down a bit, than any talk of the major push through is premature. but a push through is what ukraine needs. needs to push through. it is open to in this part of the front line to effectively cut russia s occupied land corridor in half. what that would do is isolate tens of thousands of troops and bring crimea comfortably within its size and what he have hopes is that will bring moscow to the negotiating table and force
of men and machinery, and the claim this morning was that the village of staromaiorske had been liberated. the advances are relatively small we re talking about 5km but there are reports of heavy shelling. analysts are describing a full frontal assault towards the city of robotyne, which is further south east of zaporizhzhia. so, it is clear that ukraine is trying to make moves. now, there are unnamed sources unnamed us officials who see this as the start of a major thrust but ukraine, kyiv is trying to water that down a bit, saying any talk of the major push through is premature. but a push through is what ukraine needs. it needs to push through. it is hoping to, in this part of the front line, to effectively cut russia s occupied land corridor in half. what that would do is isolate tens of thousands of troops and bring crimea comfortably within its sights. and what kyiv have hopes
Russian forces are focusing on maintaining control of the land corridor to occupied Crimea in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, the Defense Ministry's Military Media Center reported on July 29.
there is a lot of excitement, but ukraine isn t using the same kind of language. in terms of what we know, it seems ukraine has has concentrated a lot of men and a lot of machinery in a southeastern pocket of the front line where it is. it is claiming to have liberated a village called stara maersk, which would equate to a gain of only a few kilometres. however, to even make that kind of a gain with the level of russian fortifications there, with landmines and the reports of heavy artillery and russian forces fighting back in some areas, it is clear that the ukrainian effort has dialled up to some degree. and this is somewhere where ukrainian forces really want to try and push through and break a russian occupied land corridor in half. so whether this is part of a much bigger trend, it s too early to say. for now, it seems part of the typical toing and froing of the front line, which has been the case for months, frankly.