{"id":27141,"date":"2022-09-13T08:11:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T08:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=27141"},"modified":"2022-09-13T08:11:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T08:11:47","slug":"ukraine-reclaims-more-territory-reports-capturing-many-pows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=27141","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine reclaims more territory, reports capturing many POWs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ABC News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KHARKIV, Ukraine &#8212; Ukrainian troops expanded their territorial gains Monday, pushing all the way to the country&#8217;s northeastern border in places, and claimed to have captured a record number of Russian soldiers as part of the lightning advance that forced Moscow to make a hasty retreat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A spokesman for Ukrainian military intelligence said Russian troops were surrendering en masse as \u201cthey understand the hopelessness of their situation.\u201d A Ukrainian presidential adviser said there were so many POWs that the country was running out of space to accommodate them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blue-and-yellow Ukrainian flags fluttered over newly liberated towns across a wide swath of reclaimed land. The Ukrainian military said it had freed more than 20 settlements in 24 hours. In recent days, Kyiv\u2019s forces have captured territory at least twice the size of greater London, according to the British Defense Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After months of little discernible movement on the battlefield, the momentum has lifted Ukrainian morale and provoked rare public criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn some areas of the front, our defenders reached the state border with the Russian Federation,\u201d said Oleh Syniehubov, governor of the northeastern Kharkiv region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The counteroffensive left the Kremlin struggling for a response to its largest military defeat in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/Ukraine\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> since Russian forces pulled back from areas near Kyiv after a botched attempt to capture the capital early in the invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Russian Defense Ministry acknowledged the setback in a map that showed its troops pressed back along a narrow patch of land on the border with Russia \u2014 a tacit admission of big Ukrainian gains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reports of chaos abounded as Russian troops pulled out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Russians were here in the morning. Then at noon, they suddenly started shouting wildly and began to run away, charging off in tanks and armored vehicles,\u201d Dmytro Hrushchenko, a resident of recently liberated Zaliznychne, a small town near the eastern front line, told Sky News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Video taken by the Ukrainian military showed soldiers raising the Ukrainian flag over battle-damaged buildings. In one scene, a fighter wiped his boots on a Russian flag on the ground. Other videos showed Ukrainians inspecting the wreckage of Russian military vehicles, including tanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News: KHARKIV, Ukraine &#8212; Ukrainian troops expanded their territorial gains Monday, pushing all the way to the country&#8217;s northeastern border in places, and claimed to have captured a record number of Russian soldiers as part of the lightning advance that forced Moscow to make a hasty retreat. A spokesman for Ukrainian military intelligence said Russian troops were surrendering en masse as \u201cthey understand the hopelessness of their situation.\u201d A Ukrainian presidential adviser said there were so many POWs that the country was running out of space to accommodate them. 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