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Ukraine claimed to have broken through Russia's first-line defences in several areas during the counteroffensive in the Zaporizhzhia region..
Ukraine said on Friday its troops had broken through Russia's first line of defences in several places, though they then encountered even more heavily fortified Russian positions...
"Our armed forces have to overcome a lot of obstacles in order to move forward," she said.. Heavy fighting swept the villages around Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, captured in May by Russian forces after months of battles, Maliar said but added it was difficult to determine whether any advances had been made.. "In the course of a single day, positions between the two sides can change several times."..
The General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces in its evening report on Facebook said that Russian forces had made no headway in attempts to advance in five different sectors of the front -- from Kupiansk in the northeast to different parts of Donetsk region...
In Washington, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the United States had "noted over the last 72 hours or so some notable progress by Ukrainian armed forces ...in that southern line of advance coming out of the Zaporizhzhia area"...
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