"Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his top military commander have said Russian offensives failed to meet their goals and Moscow was suffering heavy losses on the battlefield. Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address on Friday that Ukrainian forces had inflicted heavy casualties on Russian troops in a counteroffensive near Dobropillia in the eastern Donetsk region. Military commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi told reporters that the Russians' spring and summer campaign has effectively been disrupted."
"Speaking about a Russian breakthrough in August near Dobropillia, Syrskyi said Ukraine had cut off Russian forces along the Kazenyi Torets river in what he called a trap. He said that since the beginning of summer the Russians had been attacking with a tactic he called a thousand cuts a high number of tiny infantry assaults. The active front line was now 1,250km (777 miles) long and an estimated 712,000 Russian personnel were involved in the fighting in Ukraine, he said."
Ukrainian officials reported that Russian offensives have not achieved their stated objectives and that Russian forces suffered heavy battlefield losses. Ukrainian troops claimed heavy casualties inflicted on Russian forces during a counteroffensive near Dobropillia in Donetsk region. Commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi stated that Russia's spring and summer campaign was disrupted and that plans to create buffer zones in Sumy and Kharkiv, to take Pokrovsk, and to capture Donetsk had failed. Syrskyi described cutting off Russian units along the Kazenyi Torets river and characterized repeated small infantry attacks as a "thousand cuts" tactic. Ukraine's military intelligence assessed that Russia deliberately flew drones into Polish airspace to test NATO responses and pressure Western partners, potentially aiming to reduce support for Ukraine.
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