DeepState: Ukraine's Defense Forces advanced at the junction of Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizh...

⚡️DeepState: Ukraine's Defense Forces advanced at the junction of Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions, completely liberated Novoselivka and its surroundings, and are also conducting clearing operations near six other villages.

Russia lost ≈46.4 km².

⬆️Timelapse.

Heroes, there are simply no words! Carrying out such counteroffensive operations in the fifth year of a war of attrition... Iron men!

Yes, this is a tactical success, not an operational one. There is no question of advancing to operational depth, this is an operation aimed at occupying advantageous lines for the further conduct of strategic DEFENSE.

And yet, since the Kursk operation Ukraine had only been defending, and all AFU counteroffensive operations were either elements of response (clearing Kupiansk of infiltration), or force majeure situations (eliminating the breakthrough of the Russian Armed Forces on the Dobropillia salient). But here we clearly see a planned successful offensive on a chosen sector of the front, even if of tactical significance. In plain language, this is called initiative.