Ukraine Advances on Russian Defenses as US Battle Tanks Arrive
- Gains in Russian-occupied Verbove as troops push south
- ‘Tactical breakthrough’ against entrenched defenses, ISW says
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Ukraine’s military said its troops made advances along the southern frontline against entrenched Russian defenses as US battle tanks arrived to bolster the four-month-old counteroffensive.
Kyiv’s forces moved forward near the village of Verbove in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, with troops pushing toward the occupied Russian strongholds of Tokmak and Melitopol farther south, according to the Ukrainian General Staff. The Institute for the Study of War called it a “tactical breakthrough,” though it said the situation is fluid.