Ukraine Steps Up Counteroffensive With Big Push in the South
- ‘Very good results,’ Zelenskiy says without elaborating
- Ukrainian official cautions against calling it decisive battle
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Ukraine kicked off a long-awaited thrust in its counteroffensive with an armored assault on Russian fortifications in the south that may be part of a push to cut Moscow’s land link to its strongholds in occupied Crimea.
The assault coincided with new Russian missile attacks against infrastructure in Ukraine’s Odesa region which killed one person and damaged a grain cargo. Wheat prices rose, continuing a climb that began last week when Ukraine’s Black Sea export deal collapsed.